[uml-devel] Re: gdkfb

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>   - On my Athlon XP (2.6.7+SKAS host, config based on the Debian
>     kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7 config), it crashed very early until I enlarged the
>     stack sizes (STACKSIZE) of the gdkfb threads.  However, even then the
>     update thread still hangs somewhere after the initial repaint. Userland
>     libraries are exactly the same as on the laptop. Strange...

BTW, is there a way to check how much stack a thread really needs? I
tried poisoning the stack with 0xdeadbeef during initializating, but it
looks like clone() will clear it to all zeroes, since afterwards gdb
found zeroes only.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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