Re: x86: 4kstacks default

From: Mark Lord
Date: Sun Apr 20 2008 - 09:27:42 EST


Willy Tarreau wrote:

What would really help would be to have 8k stacks with the lower page
causing a fault and print a stack trace upon first access. That way,
the safe setting would still report us useful information without
putting users into trouble.
..

That's the best suggestion from this thread, by far!
Can you produce a patch for 2.6.26 for this?
Or perhaps someone else here, with the right code familiarity, could?

Some sort of CONFIG option would likely be wanted to
either enable/disable this feature, of course.

Cheers
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