From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262217AbTELPYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2003 11:24:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262219AbTELPYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2003 11:24:00 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.106]:55762 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262217AbTELPXZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2003 11:23:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3EBFBEF5.6050600@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:34:13 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin J. Bligh" CC: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel , lse-tech Subject: Re: 2.5.69-mjb1 References: <9380000.1052624649@[10.10.2.4]> <20030512132939.GF19053@holomorphy.com> <21850000.1052743254@[10.10.2.4]> <20030512150309.GG19053@holomorphy.com> <23510000.1052744845@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin J. Bligh wrote: > OK, so maybe I'm still asleep, but I don't see why the hardcoded > magic constant (grrr) is 4096 in mainline, when the stacksize is 8K. > Presumably the 1019*4 makes up the rest of it? Maybe the real question > is what the hell was whoever wrote that in the first place smoking ? ;-) > Why on earth would you skip halfway through the stack with one stupid > magic constant, and then the rest of the way with another? You can go ask the author: http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/diffs/include/asm-i386/processor.h@1.12?nav=index.html|src/|src/include|src/include/asm-i386|hist/include/asm-i386/processor.h -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com