[PATCH v3 3/3] sched: BUG when stack end location is over written

[Mike Galbraith]

On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 10:44 +0100, Aaron Tomlin wrote: 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 02:06:57PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 16:41 +0100, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
> > > diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > > index a285900..2a8280a 100644
> > > --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > > +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > > @@ -824,6 +824,18 @@ config SCHEDSTATS
> > >  	  application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
> > >  	  this adds.
> > >  
> > > +config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
> > > +	bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
> > > +	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> > > +	default y
> > 
> > Did you really mean default y?
> > 
> > Doing so means it will be turned on more or less everywhere, which defeats the
> > purpose of having a config option in the first place.
> 
> Only if Kconfig CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled in the first place.

Which is likely enabled just about everywhere on the planet.

-Mike