From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: ooyama eiichi <ooyama@tritech.co.jp>
Cc: cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel stack size
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:29:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424EE489.4040900@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050403.031542.23015132.ooyama@tritech.co.jp>
ooyama eiichi wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
>
>>On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:46:34AM +0900, ooyama eiichi wrote:
>>
>>
>>>How can I know the rest size of the kernel stack.
>>
>>you can't in a platfork-independant way
>
>
> in i386 and ia64.
>
>
>>>(in my kernel driver)
>>
>>*why* do you want to do this?
>>
>
>
> because my driver hungs the machine by an certain ioctl.
> and it seems to me there is no bad in the code correspond to
> the ioctl, except for that it is using large auto variables.
> (some functions are useing ~1KB autos)
That's your problem. Use kmalloc instead of large local variables.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-02 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-02 17:46 kernel stack size ooyama eiichi
2005-04-02 17:53 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-02 18:15 ` ooyama eiichi
2005-04-02 18:24 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-02 18:48 ` ooyama eiichi
2005-04-02 19:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-02 19:37 ` Al Viro
2005-04-02 19:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-02 18:29 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
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2005-04-02 20:14 Manfred Spraul
2005-04-02 22:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-03 7:10 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-04-03 18:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-03 19:23 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-10-09 19:14 Punj, Arun
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