Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2

Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22T14:26:46Z

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:

> If "other means" means knowing that its located in a certain place on
> the stack, that's actually bogus. Any user space task started via exec
> from a kernel thread has extra junk on the kernel stack. Been there
> already. ;(

no, i've added it to the irq descriptor structure, where it can be
accessed in normal ways by the driver. [the stack position thing doesnt
fly with vm86 tasks either.]

Ingo