RE: Detect Stack Overflows?

["Rajat Jain" <Rajat.Jain@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> 
> Kernel configuration has an option to "check for stack overflows"
> under kernel hacking section. Is that what you are looking for ?
> grep your .config for DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
> 

On examination, I found that this option only adds a check for stack overflow only at the time an IRQ occurs. But there is a lot more scope for stack overflow in scenarios other than IRQ. For instance, a function call sequence may become large enough, a function may allocate too much automatic variables etc. IS there a way to detect that?

Thanks,

Rajat

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