From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Ryan C. England" <ryan.england@corvidtec.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS causing stack overflow
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:53:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2aa71plmn.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111209115513.GA19994__23079.9863501035$1323435203$gmane$org@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Fri, 9 Dec 2011 06:55:13 -0500")
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
>
> You probably have only a third of the stack actually used by XFS, the
> rest is from NFSD/writeback code and page reclaim. I don't think any
> of this is easily fixable in a 2.6.32 codebase. Current mainline 3.2-rc
> now has the I/O-less balance dirty pages which will basically split the
> stack footprint in half, but it's an invasive change to the writeback
> code that isn't easily backportable.
An easy fix would be 16k stacks. Don't think they're that difficult
to do, but would need a special binary.
-Andi
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[not found] <CAAnfqPAm559m-Bv8LkHARm7iBW5Kfs7NmjTFidmg-idhcOq4sQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-09 11:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-09 15:56 ` Ryan C. England
2011-12-09 22:19 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <20111209221956.GE14273__25752.826271537$1323469420$gmane$org@dastard>
2011-12-10 19:52 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-10 22:13 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-11 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-11 23:05 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-12 2:31 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-12 4:36 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-12 5:13 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-12 9:00 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-12 13:43 ` Ryan C. England
2011-12-12 22:47 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <20111209115513.GA19994__23079.9863501035$1323435203$gmane$org@infradead.org>
2011-12-09 19:53 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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