From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Cc: Zeshan Ahmad <zeshan_uet@yahoo.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Mark Hemment <markhe@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: stack overflow
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:23:00 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009041219241.1639-100000@saturn.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000904140325.Y22907@mea-ext.zmailer.org>
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > when the function kmem_cache_sizes_init is called in
> > /init/main.c The exact place where the stack overflow
> > occurs is in the function kmem_cache_slabmgmt in
> > /mm/slab.c
> >
> > Is there any way to change the stack size in Kernel?
> > Can the change in stack size simply solve this Kernel
> > stack overflow problem?
>
> That is indicative that somewhere along the path
> you are: a) recursin
looking at the code, it seems in theory possible to recurse via
kmem_cache_alloc()->kmem_cache_grow()->kmem_cache_slabmgmt()->kmem_cache_alloc() but
I thought Mark invented offslab_limit to prevent this.
Maybe decreasing offslab_limit can help? Defer to Mark...
Regards,
Tigran
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-04 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-04 10:47 Zeshan Ahmad
2000-09-04 11:03 ` Matti Aarnio
2000-09-04 11:23 ` Tigran Aivazian [this message]
2000-09-05 10:55 ` Mark Hemment
2000-09-05 19:03 Zeshan Ahmad
2000-09-06 8:33 ` Mark Hemment
2000-09-06 13:25 Zeshan Ahmad
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