On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:26:41AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> As someone who gets to read a lot of bug reports from end-users,
> this thing is far from perfect judging by the number of tainted
> oopses I've seen, and not all of them look like stack size issues.
It would make sense to use 4KB pages with a guard page to catch unexpected
stack overflows. Then we'd at least catch some of the binary only modules
with Oops that clearly show who is at fault.
> Helping the cause of binary (or part binary) solutions doesn't solve anything.
> It brings nothing but unsolvable problems, and upset users when their problems
> can't get fixed.
Definately.
-ben
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