Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69

Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-07T23:49:44Z

--On Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:51:19 -0700 Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 May 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
>> No, No. That is a process stack. Every process has it's own, entirely
>> seperate stack. This stack is used only in user mode. The kernel has
>> it's own stack. Every time you switch to kernel mode either by
>> calling the kernel or by a hardware interrupt, the kernel's stack
>> is used.
>
> Is it your understanding that does not exist a per task kernel stack ?

It seems to be his lack of understanding, more to the point.

M.