On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:13:20 -0500, Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:34 +0530, Imanpreet Arora wrote: > > > I am wondering if someone could provide information as to how > > thread_struct is kept in memory. Robert Love mentions that it is kept > > at the "lowest" kernel address in case of x86 based platform. Could > > anyone answer these questions. > > Kernel _stack_ address for the given process. > > > a) When a stack is resized, is the thread_struct structure copied onto > > a new place? > > This is the kernel stack, not any potential user-space stack. Kernel > stacks are not resized.
This has been a doubt for a couple of days, and I am wondering if this one could also be cleared. When you say kernel stack, can't be resized a) Does it mean that the _whole_ of the kernel is restricted to that 8K or 16K of memory? b) Or does it mean that a particular stack for a particular process, can't be resized? c) And for that matter how exactly do we define a kernel stack? TIA -- Imanpreet Singh Arora - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
