Commit bc09d1de authored by Uwe Kleine-König's avatar Uwe Kleine-König Committed by Andrew Morton

lib: add note about process exit message for DEBUG_STACK_USAGE

DEBUG_STACK_USAGE doesn't only have an influence on the output of sysrq-T
and sysrq-P, it also enables a message at process exit.  See
check_stack_usage() in kernel/exit.c where this is implemented.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231219182808.210284-2-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.deSigned-off-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent d089622b
...@@ -763,6 +763,8 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE ...@@ -763,6 +763,8 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
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Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each
task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output.
Also emits a message to dmesg when a process exits if that process
used more stack space than previously exiting processes.
This option will slow down process creation somewhat. This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
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