On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 08:42:54PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
> >The thought of scanning the assembly code or RTL is too painful to
> >contemplate.  THus I've been pondering having the prologue expanders
> >emit notes into the dump file about what they did and why WRT probing.
> >
> >Or maybe we should use the unit testing framewhere here.  Hmmm....
> 
> I've been thinking that for Linux the kernel should have a way (/proc/pid 
> controlled) to only extend the stack mapping for faults to the page exactly 
> below the current end of the mapping.  So we'd get a segfault for any missed 
> probe.
> 
> Just for QA purposes of course, I expect too many false positives in a full 
> system.

Or valgrind could have such a tool or option.

        Jakub

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