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Date:      Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:59:23 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        rwatson@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r198451 - head/sys/ia64/include
Message-ID:  <20091027.145923.1661903621.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910250012410.68490@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200910242028.n9OKSg2u010197@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910250012410.68490@fledge.watson.org>

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In message: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910250012410.68490@fledge.watson.org>
            Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: 
: On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
: 
: > Log:
: >  A 32KB kernel stack is not quite enough. The new USB stack is a bit
: >  more stack hungry as compared to the old one that my RX2660 gets
: >  a machine check and spontaneously reboots at the time the USB DVD
: >  drive is found and attached to CAM as a mass storage device. This
: >  doesn't happen always, but definitely varies per kernel build.
: >  Likewise when using a 128-byte printf buffer. The additional 128
: >  bytes that printf needs seems to be enough to have the memory stack
: >  and register stack collide and causing a machine check.
: 
: I recently noticed, somewhat to my surprise, that BPF drops a 512-byte buffer 
: on the stack while running filters...

Would another pass of huge stack function scrubbing be useful?

Warner



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