On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:29:33 +0100
Aaron Tomlin atom...@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 02:26:54AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
And has this been tested on parisc and metag, which use STACK_GROWSUP ?
I can't see how end_of_stack() as it's defined now could work on those
archs
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:02:45 +
David Laight david.lai...@aculab.com wrote:
From: Aaron Tomlin
Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule()
does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is
often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 10:42:27 +0100
Aaron Tomlin atom...@redhat.com wrote:
+void task_stack_end_magic(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ unsigned long *stackend;
+
+ stackend = end_of_stack(tsk);
+ *stackend = STACK_END_MAGIC;/* for overflow detection */
+}
+
For clarity this
On 07/12/2007 05:35 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
With this patch, idr.c should work as advertised allocating id
values in the range 0...0x7fff. Andrew had speculated that
it should allow the full range 0...0x to be used. I was
tempted to make changes to allow this, but it would
