So I'm running the generic version of this on i386 with 8k stacks (below),
with a quick LTP run.

Holy cow, either we use a _lot_ of stack or these numbers are off:

vmm:/home/akpm> dmesg -s 1000000|grep 'bytes left' 
khelper used greatest stack depth: 7176 bytes left
khelper used greatest stack depth: 7064 bytes left
khelper used greatest stack depth: 6840 bytes left
khelper used greatest stack depth: 6812 bytes left
hostname used greatest stack depth: 6636 bytes left
uname used greatest stack depth: 6592 bytes left
uname used greatest stack depth: 6284 bytes left
hotplug used greatest stack depth: 5568 bytes left
rpc.nfsd used greatest stack depth: 5136 bytes left
chown02 used greatest stack depth: 4956 bytes left
fchown01 used greatest stack depth: 4892 bytes left

That's the sum of process stack and interrupt stack, but I doubt if this
little box is using much interrupt stack space.

No wonder people are still getting stack overflows with 4k stacks...





From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Add generic exit-time stack-depth checking to CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE.

This also adds UML support.

Tested on UML and i386.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: cleanups, speedups, tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 arch/um/Kconfig.debug        |    9 +++++++++
 arch/um/defconfig            |    1 +
 include/asm-um/thread_info.h |    9 +++++++++
 kernel/exit.c                |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff -puN 
arch/um/Kconfig.debug~add-generic-exit-time-stack-depth-checking-to-config_debug_stack_usage
 arch/um/Kconfig.debug
--- 
a/arch/um/Kconfig.debug~add-generic-exit-time-stack-depth-checking-to-config_debug_stack_usage
+++ a/arch/um/Kconfig.debug
@@ -47,4 +47,13 @@ config GCOV
         If you're involved in UML kernel development and want to use gcov,
         say Y.  If you're unsure, say N.
 
+config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
+       bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
+       default N
+       help
+         Track the maximum kernel stack usage - this will look at each
+         kernel stack at process exit and log it if it's the deepest
+         stack seen so far.
+
+         This option will slow down process creation and destruction somewhat.
 endmenu
diff -puN 
arch/um/defconfig~add-generic-exit-time-stack-depth-checking-to-config_debug_stack_usage
 arch/um/defconfig
--- 
a/arch/um/defconfig~add-generic-exit-time-stack-depth-checking-to-config_debug_stack_usage
+++ a/arch/um/defconfig
@@ -527,3 +527,4 @@ CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING=y
 # CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is not set
 # CONFIG_GPROF is not set
 # CONFIG_GCOV is not set
+# CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is not set
diff -puN 
include/asm-um/thread_info.h~add-generic-exit-time-stack-depth-checking-to-config_debug_stack_usage
 include/asm-um/thread_info.h
--- 
a/include/asm-um/thread_info.h~add-generic-exit-time-stack-depth-checking-to-config_debug_stack_usage
+++ a/include/asm-um/thread_info.h
@@ -52,10 +52,19 @@ static inline struct thread_info *curren
        return ti;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
+
+#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
+       ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, \
+                                                CONFIG_KERNEL_STACK_ORDER))
+#else
+
 /* thread information allocation */
 #define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
        ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, \
                                                 CONFIG_KERNEL_STACK_ORDER))
+#endif
+
 #define free_thread_info(ti) \
        free_pages((unsigned long)(ti),CONFIG_KERNEL_STACK_ORDER)
 
diff -puN 
kernel/exit.c~add-generic-exit-time-stack-depth-checking-to-config_debug_stack_usage
 kernel/exit.c
--- 
a/kernel/exit.c~add-generic-exit-time-stack-depth-checking-to-config_debug_stack_usage
+++ a/kernel/exit.c
@@ -868,6 +868,34 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_stru
                release_task(tsk);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
+static void check_stack_usage(void)
+{
+       static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(low_water_lock);
+       static int lowest_to_date = THREAD_SIZE;
+       unsigned long *n = end_of_stack(current);
+       unsigned long free;
+
+       while (*n == 0)
+               n++;
+       free = (unsigned long)n - (unsigned long)end_of_stack(current);
+
+       if (free >= lowest_to_date)
+               return;
+
+       spin_lock(&low_water_lock);
+       if (free < lowest_to_date) {
+               printk(KERN_WARNING "%s used greatest stack depth: %lu bytes "
+                               "left\n",
+                               current->comm, free);
+               lowest_to_date = free;
+       }
+       spin_unlock(&low_water_lock);
+}
+#else
+static inline void check_stack_usage(void) {}
+#endif
+
 fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
 {
        struct task_struct *tsk = current;
@@ -959,6 +987,7 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long co
        exit_sem(tsk);
        __exit_files(tsk);
        __exit_fs(tsk);
+       check_stack_usage();
        exit_thread();
        cpuset_exit(tsk);
        exit_keys(tsk);
_

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