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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel_thread bogosity
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:52:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001124205247.A141@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001123232333.A6426@bug.ucw.cz> <20001124014830.I1461@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20001124014830.I1461@athlon.random>; from Andrea Arcangeli on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:48:30AM +0100

Hi!

> > Plus, can someone explain me why it does not need to setup %%ecx with
> > either zero or address of stack?
> 
> Not necessary because a kernel thread never exit from kernel.

How can that work? restore_args ends with iret, anyway, and iret does
reload esp afaics...
								Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-26 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-23 22:23 kernel_thread bogosity Pavel Machek
2000-11-24  0:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-24 19:52   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2000-11-26 16:26     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-26 22:29       ` Pavel Machek
2000-11-26 23:38         ` Andrea Arcangeli

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