From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Nathan Lynch <nathanl-V7BBcbaFuwjMbYB6QlFGEg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Linux Containers
<containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org>,
sukadev-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org,
linux-s390-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] implement s390 clone_with_pids syscall
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:37:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091111203739.GD8761@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257970778.7132.1364.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
Quoting Nathan Lynch (nathanl-V7BBcbaFuwjMbYB6QlFGEg@public.gmane.org):
> Something I missed earlier is that the stack_size you are passing in
> from user space is not actually the size of the stack. It's adjusted to
> account for arguments that have been placed at the end of the stack
> region. So stack_size becomes a value that you want the kernel to add
> to stack_base to get the desired stack pointer value in the child --
> it's not a size at all. At this point we may as well communicate the
> desired stack pointer value directly (which could be denoted by
> stack_size == 0, or we could add another member to clone_args), or
> rename stack_size to stack_offset or similar.
So do I understand correctly that the agreement (reached on irc) is
to keep passing in a stack_size, but enforce that it ==0 for all but
ia64?
-serge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-11 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-10 16:37 [PATCH 1/1] implement s390 clone_with_pids syscall Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20091110163708.GA19122-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-11 7:27 ` Nathan Lynch
[not found] ` <1257924442.7132.467.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-11 14:46 ` Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20091111144600.GA6925-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-11 16:59 ` Nathan Lynch
[not found] ` <1257958793.7132.1068.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-11 18:33 ` Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20091111183303.GA8761-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-11 20:19 ` Nathan Lynch
[not found] ` <1257970778.7132.1364.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-11 20:37 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
[not found] ` <20091111203739.GD8761-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-11 21:53 ` Nathan Lynch
2009-11-11 21:53 ` Nathan Lynch
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