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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