[2.6.23(?)=<] X used greatest stack depth: N bytes left

From: Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2007 - 16:11:37 EST


in newer kernel I recently see this warnings:

X used greatest stack depth: N bytes left

X E { program name }
N E { x byte }

----------------8<--------------
...
khelper used greatest stack depth: 7496 bytes left
khelper used greatest stack depth: 7184 bytes left
...
khelper used greatest stack depth: 6328 bytes left
stty used greatest stack depth: 6180 bytes left
mount used greatest stack depth: 6156 bytes left
mknod used greatest stack depth: 5932 bytes left
...
wpa_supplicant used greatest stack depth: 5740 bytes left
...
dhclient3 used greatest stack depth: 5500 bytes left
----------------8<--------------

it is the "results" of the CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE=y options or it's other problem or feature?

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Thanks,
Oliver
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