From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@sisk.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86-64 documentation
Date: 6 Jul 2004 14:10:23 +0200
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:10:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040706121023.GA21440@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407061352.48108.rjwysocki@sisk.pl>
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:52:48PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 of July 2004 13:31, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:06:01PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Sunday 04 of July 2004 21:46, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:46:20PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > I've just read the Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt. Is it up to date?
> > > >
> > > > Mostly yes.
> > >
> > > How about kernel stacks? Are they still 16k or they are 8k now?
> >
> > They were always 8k
>
> Hm. Does this mean that one register is reserved for the task_struct pointer
> etc. (as stated in mm.txt) or is it done in a different way?
GS points to a per CPU data structure and the current task is read from
that.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-06 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-04 18:46 x86-64 documentation R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-04 19:46 ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-06 10:06 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-06 11:31 ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-06 11:52 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-06 12:10 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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