* Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:23:54AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 22:10:24 -0500 Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > This adds a CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option which enables a host tool
> > > named stackvalidate which runs at compile time.
> >
> > It would be useful to
> >
> > - show example output for a typical error site
> >
> > - describe the consequences of that error (ie: why should we fix
> > these things?)
> >
> > - describe what needs to be done to repair these sites.
> >
> >
> > IOW, what do we gain from merging all this stuff?
>
> I attempted to do all that in Documentation/stack-validation.txt which
> is in patch 03/20. Does it address your concerns? Here it is:
I think it answers the first and third question, but not the second one:
- describe the consequences of that error (ie: why should we fix
these things?)
would be nice to document all that richly.
Thanks,
Ingo
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