Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (>=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Fri, 25 May 2001 10:27:53 +0200


On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 06:25:57PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> Nothing in arch/i386/kernel/traps.c uses a task gate, they are all
> interrupt, trap, system or call gates. I guarantee that kdb on ix86
> and ia64 uses the same kernel stack as the failing task, the starting
> point for the kdb backtrace is itself and it does not follow segment
> switches.

I would consider this a bug in kdb then.

-Andi
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