Message-Id: <200404070102.i3712nDe002647@eeyore.valparaiso.cl>
To: Sergiy Lozovsky <serge_lozovsky@yahoo.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel stack challenge 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:44:12 MST."
             <20040406174412.7850.qmail@web40511.mail.yahoo.com> 
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:02:49 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Sergiy Lozovsky <serge_lozovsky@yahoo.com> said:
> If stack will shrink - i'll come up with something.

Good luck! When it is done shrinking, there won't be much (if any) left for
you to play with.

> Rearchitecture of LISP interpreter - is too much work.

Implement a kernel-side LISP interpreter isn't...

> (and I'm lazy - I prefer computer to do a work, not me
> :-)

Nodz. But even better is _not_ doing it at all ;-)

> I checked what is going on with the stack - it is used
> to pass parameters, some functions have one or two
> local variables (4 bytes each) and that's it.

Why do you think it has been 2 pages (8KiB) for as long as I remember
(essentially forever in Linux), and it has taken a _lot_ of work to shrink
it to 4KiB (- size of *current)?
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