From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 06:54:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 06:54:33 -0500 Received: from [194.213.32.137] ([194.213.32.137]:772 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 06:54:17 -0500 Message-ID: <20001124205247.A141@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:52:47 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: kernel list Subject: Re: kernel_thread bogosity In-Reply-To: <20001123232333.A6426@bug.ucw.cz> <20001124014830.I1461@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <20001124014830.I1461@athlon.random>; from Andrea Arcangeli on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:48:30AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/