Ingo, can you test this patch implementing Steve's suggestion? Unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce the bug on my setup anymore. --- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] x86-32: align irq stacks properly As suggested by Steven Rostedt we need to align the irq stacks on the stack size, not just the page size to make them work for stack traces with 8k stacks. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c 2010-07-27 14:06:50.634494682 +0200 +++ linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c 2010-07-27 14:06:58.031494680 +0200 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static inline void print_stack_overflow( union irq_ctx { struct thread_info tinfo; u32 stack[THREAD_SIZE/sizeof(u32)]; -} __attribute__((aligned(PAGE_SIZE))); +} __attribute__((aligned(THREAD_SIZE))); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(union irq_ctx *, hardirq_ctx); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(union irq_ctx *, softirq_ctx); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html