Re: [PATCH] proc: fix ->stack_start in compat mode

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Sun Nov 01 2009 - 07:43:14 EST


On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:54:05AM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 14:56 +0300 schrieb Alexey Dobriyan:
> > Assign tsk->stack_start even when doing compat execve(2).
> >
> > As side effect, fix segfault inside boehm-gc library.
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14478
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Michael, please, confirm.
> >
> > Stefani, I get "Stack usage: 0 kB", you may want to look at it.
> >
>
> Under which circumstance do you get 0 kb reported? What is your system
> (mmu/nommu, 32bit/64bit, architecture and so on).

Well, no wonder it doesn't work:

#define KSTK_ESP(tsk) -1 /* sorry. doesn't work for syscall. */

How does it supposed to work on live task?
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