Re: [STACK] >3k call path in xfs

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 9 June 2004 14:54:17 +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Jörn Engel wrote:
> > 3k is not really bad yet, I just like to keep 1k of headroom for
> > surprises like an extra int foo[256] in a structure.
> > stackframes for call path too long (3064):
> [...]
> >       12  panic
> [...]
> 
> I agree thats good to reduce stack size. 
> 
> On the other hand I think call traces containing panic are not a call trace 
> I want to see at all.

Does panic switch to a different stack?  If that was the case, you'd
be right and I'd have to make some adjustments.

Or do you mean that at the time of panic, a stack overflow simply
doesn't matter anymore.  The only data that may get corrupted is the
dump for a developer to analyse, after all.  (I'd like to make such a
claim someday, just to hear RAS people scream bloody murder. ;))

Jörn

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