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-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug7
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c28
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug
index 0226f08be87..087a04868b2 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ config IOMMU_LEAK
Add a simple leak tracer to the IOMMU code. This is useful when you
are debugging a buggy device driver that leaks IOMMU mappings.
+config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
+ bool "Check for stack overflows"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ This option will cause messages to be printed if free stack space
+ drops below a certain limit.
+
#config X86_REMOTE_DEBUG
# bool "kgdb debugging stub"
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c
index 207ecdc3982..59518d4d435 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c
@@ -26,6 +26,30 @@ atomic_t irq_mis_count;
#endif
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
+/*
+ * Probabilistic stack overflow check:
+ *
+ * Only check the stack in process context, because everything else
+ * runs on the big interrupt stacks. Checking reliably is too expensive,
+ * so we just check from interrupts.
+ */
+static inline void stack_overflow_check(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ u64 curbase = (u64) current->thread_info;
+ static unsigned long warned = -60*HZ;
+
+ if (regs->rsp >= curbase && regs->rsp <= curbase + THREAD_SIZE &&
+ regs->rsp < curbase + sizeof(struct thread_info) + 128 &&
+ time_after(jiffies, warned + 60*HZ)) {
+ printk("do_IRQ: %s near stack overflow (cur:%Lx,rsp:%lx)\n",
+ current->comm, curbase, regs->rsp);
+ show_stack(NULL,NULL);
+ warned = jiffies;
+ }
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* Generic, controller-independent functions:
*/
@@ -96,7 +120,9 @@ asmlinkage unsigned int do_IRQ(struct pt_regs *regs)
exit_idle();
irq_enter();
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
+ stack_overflow_check(regs);
+#endif
__do_IRQ(irq, regs);
irq_exit();