Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 03:15:42 +0900 (JST)
Message-Id: <20050403.031542.23015132.ooyama@tritech.co.jp>
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel stack size
From: ooyama eiichi <ooyama@tritech.co.jp>
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Thanks for your reply.

> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:46:34AM +0900, ooyama eiichi wrote:
> 
> > How can I know the rest size of the kernel stack.
> 
> you can't in a platfork-independant way

in i386 and ia64.

> 
> > (in my kernel driver)
> 
> *why* do you want to do this?
> 

because my driver hungs the machine by an certain ioctl.
and it seems to me there is no bad in the code correspond to 
the ioctl, except for that it is using large auto variables.
(some functions are useing ~1KB autos)

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