Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

[Robert Hancock]

Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> Just a thought : why couldn't ndiswrapper set apart some piece
> of memory and use it as the stack by changing the esp register
> before executing windows code.
>
> Like http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ndiswrapper.general/4737
>
> It's dirty, I know, but after all they are executing win32 code ...
>
> Why wouldn't this work ?

I think this would be a good idea. I don't see any reason in principle 
why the ndiswrapper code couldn't use a separate stack for the Win32 
driver code. Sharing the stack between the Linux kernel and whatever 
junk is going on inside the Windows driver seems rather inherently fragile..

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