Re: stress test for parallel workers

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Mark Wong <mark(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: stress test for parallel workers
Date: 2020-10-15 22:11:34
Message-ID: CA+hUKGK4CQei7cOprdYGq4tx6R9V5kfBYHd8PcsXCvfK9zU-bQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 1:43 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I wrote:
> > For our archives' sake: today I got seemingly-automated mail informing me
> > that this patch has been merged into the 4.19-stable, 5.4-stable,
> > 5.7-stable, and 5.8-stable kernel branches; but not 4.4-stable,
> > 4.9-stable, or 4.14-stable, because it failed to apply.
>
> And this morning's mail brought news that the latter three branches
> are now patched as well. So I guess at this point it's down to
> platform vendors as to whether or how fast they absorb such changes.

Today I upgraded a Debian buster box and saw a new kernel image roll
in. Lo and behold:

$ zgrep 'stack expansion'
/usr/share/doc/linux-image-4.19.0-11-amd64/changelog.gz
- [powerpc*] Allow 4224 bytes of stack expansion for the signal frame

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