Re: stack overflow

[Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > when the function kmem_cache_sizes_init is called in
> > /init/main.c The exact place where the stack overflow
> > occurs is in the function kmem_cache_slabmgmt in
> > /mm/slab.c
> > 
> > Is there any way to change the stack size in Kernel?
> > Can the change in stack size simply solve this Kernel
> > stack overflow problem?
> 
> 	That is indicative that somewhere along the path
> 	you are:  a) recursin

looking at the code, it seems in theory possible to recurse via
kmem_cache_alloc()->kmem_cache_grow()->kmem_cache_slabmgmt()->kmem_cache_alloc() but
I thought Mark invented offslab_limit to prevent this.

Maybe decreasing offslab_limit can help? Defer to Mark...

Regards,
Tigran

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