Re: 2.5.69-mjb1

From: Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 10:34:13 EST


Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> OK, so maybe I'm still asleep, but I don't see why the hardcoded
> magic constant (grrr) is 4096 in mainline, when the stacksize is 8K.
> Presumably the 1019*4 makes up the rest of it? Maybe the real question
> is what the hell was whoever wrote that in the first place smoking ? ;-)
> Why on earth would you skip halfway through the stack with one stupid
> magic constant, and then the rest of the way with another?

You can go ask the author:

http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/diffs/include/asm-i386/processor.h@1.12?nav=index.html|src/|src/include|src/include/asm-i386|hist/include/asm-i386/processor.h

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com

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