Re: 4k stacks in 2.6
From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea_at_suse.de)
Date: 05/27/04
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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:50:33 +0200 To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:18:40AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> The problem on i386 (unlike x86-64) is that the thread_info struct sits
> at the bottom of the stack and is referenced by masking bits off %esp.
> So the stack size must be constant whether in process context or IRQ
> context.
so what, that's a minor implementation detail, pda is a software thing.
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