* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> 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 <jpoim...@redhat.com> 
> > 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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