Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264255AbTEGT30 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 15:29:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264259AbTEGT3Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 15:29:25 -0400 Received: from siaab1ab.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.2]:9646 "EHLO siaab1ab.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264255AbTEGT2r (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 15:28:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 15:38:19 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69 To: "root@chaos.analogic.com" Cc: linux-kernel Message-ID: <200305071540_MC3-1-37DD-34B0@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 593 Lines: 14 > Every time you switch to kernel mode either by > calling the kernel or by a hardware interrupt, the kernel's stack > is used. Almost correct: it's _a_ kernel stack, not _the_ kernel stack. The load_esp0() function changes this on every task switch on i386. If there were only one kernel stack then there would be no need to ever do that... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/