Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

From: Mark Lord (lkml_at_rtr.ca)
Date: 09/07/05

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To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>

    Daniel Phillips wrote:
    > There are only two stacks involved, the normal kernel stack and your new ndis
    > stack. You save ESP of the kernel stack at the base of the ndis stack. When
    > the Windows code calls your api, you get the ndis ESP, load the kernel ESP
    > from the base of the ndis stack, push the ndis ESP so you can get back to the
    > ndis code later, and continue on your merry way.

    With CONFIG_PREEMPT, this will still cause trouble due to lack
    of "current" task info on the NDIS stack.

    One option is to copy (duplicate) the bottom-of-stack info when
    switching to the NDIS stack.

    Another option is to stick a Mutex around any use of the NDIS stack
    when calling into the foreign driver (might be done like this already??),
    which will prevent PREEMPTion during the call.

    Cheers
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