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Date:	Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:59:26 +0800
From:	zhan rongkai <zhanrk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Why does MIPS/Linux always reserve 32 bytes in the top of each process's kernel stack space
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Hi, everyone:

Why does MIPS/Linux always reserve 32 bytes in the top of each
process's kernel stack space.

See arch/mips/kernel/process.c:

int copy_thread(int nr, unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
	unsigned long unused, struct task_struct *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	struct thread_info *ti = p->thread_info;
	struct pt_regs *childregs;
	long childksp;

	childksp = (unsigned long)ti + THREAD_SIZE - 32;
        ......
}

-- 
Rongkai Zhan