Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 16 November 2005 15:54:27 -0700, Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> >>
> >The SCSI layer needs to be checked.  I reproduced another crash on 
> >today on an older Niksun box running off the end of the stack.
> >
> It's somewhere in the scanning code.  There's a case where it runs off 
> the end of the stack.  Check the compaq drivers for SATA as well, they 
> also crash in a similiar place during bus scan.  Both occurred during 
> bootup, so I wasn't able to get a log of the particulars.  Should be 
> easy to reproduce.  Compaq Presario 2200.

Do you have a backtrace for these?  Real-life problem tend to generate
more attention than theoretical results based on code checkers.

Jörn

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