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RE: [Xen-devel] [Fwd: stack overflow "cause" found]



Rik van Riel wrote:
> Ian Pratt wrote:
>>>> Xen really should not be doing this.  We could either uninline
>>>> some of these functions, or try gcc -O2 or gcc -Os.
>>> OK, with -Os it doesn't quite build due to the built-ins not being
>>> inlined.  With -O2 the stack usage changes dramatically...
>> 
>> It would be nice if -O2 worked. Quite a scary change give the amount
>> of inline asm  though... 
> 
> Not only does -O2 seem to work, but without it we get stack
> overflows and things suddenly stop working.
> 
> I've been beating up my x86-64 system with a few VT and paravirt
> guests for over an hour now, and it no longer crashes.  Without
> -O2, I can make it crash within minutes...

Good news. We've been doing stress testings, and haven't seen major
problems so far.

Jun
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Intel Open Source Technology Center

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