Re: [PATCH] (3/3) stack overflow checking for x86

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 21:30, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > This won't apply cleanly without the irqstack patch, but the conflict is
>  > easy to resolve.  It requires the thread_info cleanup.
> 
> I'm wondering about interaction between this patch and the
> already merged CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW ?

It replaces it and actually makes it useful since IRQ usage is now
bounded and defined relative to non IRQ usage. Without IRQ stacks you
don't have a hope in hell of catching overflows that depend on an irq
occuring at the right moment