CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW hurts

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Sep 11 20:26:37 UTC 2007


On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:05:52PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
 
 > In light of this, I'd like to propose that we turn off
 > DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW in Fedora, at least on x86/4KSTACKS.  I think it
 > does more harm than good; the warning is going to turn deadly most of
 > the time.
 > 
 > I also had sent a patch to LKML to print whether or not the stack was
 > overflowing, or had ever overflowed, on a kernel panic.  It's not yet
 > been merged.
 > 
 > ... any comments?  I can file a bug but thought some discussion might be
 > in order.

We could turn it off everywhere expect the -debug kernels and
just have XFS + -debug be a 'dont do that' thing.

	Dave

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