Re: Kernel stack

[Jon Masters]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:41:04 +0200, Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> wrote:

> The base of the stack does not have to be stored either, because it is
> AT FIXED OFFSET from the task_struct! If you don't believe me, look at
> definition of the current macro. It says just (%esp & ~8195) (it says it
> in assembly, because you can't directly access registers from C, and it
> uses some macros that mean "two pages" instead of 8195).

The pedant in me wants to point out that 8K is 0-8191 and not 0-8195 :-)

Jon.
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