Created attachment 484 [details]
Run kprobes handlers on a separate stack - i386

This patch is described in my SystemTap posting of 5/11/05 and in CVS:
patches/kprobe_stack (sic).

I've attached a working prototype for i386.

The necessity for this feature is diminished significantly by the SystemTap
translator's practice of statically allocating space for the handler's "local"
variables.

That practice was factored in at the time this suggestion was initially raised.
 We still use probably a few hundred bytes of stack, just with kprobes and
translator artifacts.  The question was whether even those few hundred could
pose a problem.

Systemtap probe handlers now check for a minimum of available stack space upon
entry, so maybe we don't need to pursue this any more.