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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:28:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:

> If "other means" means knowing that its located in a certain place on
> the stack, that's actually bogus.  Any user space task started via exec
> from a kernel thread has extra junk on the kernel stack.  Been there
> already. ;(

no, i've added it to the irq descriptor structure, where it can be
accessed in normal ways by the driver. [the stack position thing doesnt
fly with vm86 tasks either.]

	Ingo

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