Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69

From: Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 13:51:19 EST


On Wed, 7 May 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> No, No. That is a process stack. Every process has it's own, entirely
> seperate stack. This stack is used only in user mode. The kernel has
> it's own stack. Every time you switch to kernel mode either by
> calling the kernel or by a hardware interrupt, the kernel's stack
> is used.

Is it your understanding that does not exist a per task kernel stack ?

- Davide

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