From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:13:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:13:10 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:61451 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:13:01 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Linus Torvalds , Richard Gooch Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/devfs/base.c Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:15:05 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Akash Jain , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, su.class.cs99q@nntp.stanford.edu In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060422150505.08443@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 04 June 2001 01:55, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - the kernel stack is 4kB, and _nobody_ has the right to eat up a > noticeable portion of it. It doesn't matter if you "know" your > caller or not: you do not know what interrupts happen during this > time, and how much stack they want. We'd better know the upper bound of interrupt allocations or we have an accident waiting to happen. How much of the kernel stack is reserved for interrupts? -- Daniel