Re: calcru-triggered panic?

From: John Birrell <jb_at_what-creek.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:50:25 +0000
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 03:40:38PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> It's probably less of an issue now that it used to be, since I/O is
> decoupled through GEOM threads.  In 4.x, you could have a stack that
> went from the syscall, through VFS, UFS, the block layer, CAM, and 
> finally the device driver.  When I was working on RAIDFrame, adding
> just a couple hundred bytes of stack usage would cause it to blow out.
> But as I said, it might not be as much of an issue now.

Is it possible to check how deep the stack is and avoid using a stack
buffer if too deep?

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John Birrell
Received on Wed Nov 29 2006 - 21:49:45 UTC

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