[driverloader] dldrconfig --enable-workaround=stack works witn BCM94306 (so far)

Linuxant support (Jonathan) support at linuxant.com
Thu Sep 2 16:50:25 EDT 2004


Hi,

the DriverLoader module reports the stack size of the kernel when it is 
inserted into the kernel. Here is a typical output of the DriverLoader 
module loaded in a Fedora Core 2 kernel, you can see this message in the 
output of the 'dmesg' command in a root shell :

---
driverloader: stack=4096/76/0 REGPARM X86_SWITCH_PAGETABLES
---

The first number after 'stack=' is the stack size of your kernel in 
bytes. In the example above, the kernel have 4K of stacks.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Christian Dysthe wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> 
> 
>>And "so far" is about 30 min. of intense use of the internet.
>>Before I started using the special kernels (8k stacks, then 16k),
>>it used to crash in less than a minute.  I'm using the
>>2.6.8-1.521 kernel and the driverloader version made for it.
>>Looks like I don't need the special kernels anymore.  Fingers
>>crossed.
>>
>>For readers who don't know what this is about, see:
>>http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/limitations.php
> 
> 
> Interesting. I see that the workaround is enabled on my laptop running
> Mandrake 10.1 Beta 2 with the 2.6.8.1 kernel. However, I would like to
> know how to check if the installed kernel has been built with 16k
> stack size. Do you have to look in the kernel sources somewhere, or
> are there other ways to find out?
> 
>>Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of
>>Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
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