Re: Question regarding thread_struct

[Robert Love <rml@novell.com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:34 +0530, Imanpreet Arora wrote:

> 	I am wondering if someone could provide information as to how
> thread_struct is kept in memory. Robert Love mentions that it is kept
> at the "lowest"  kernel address in case of x86 based platform. Could
> anyone answer these questions.

Kernel _stack_ address for the given process.

> a)	When a stack is resized, is the thread_struct structure copied onto
> a new place?

This is the kernel stack, not any potential user-space stack.  Kernel
stacks are not resized.

> b)	What is the advantage of this scheme as against a fixed "virtual-address"?

This is inside of the kernel, not in user-space.

> c)	Also could you kindly point the relevant files which do all this
> stuff "shed.c"(?)

See kernel/fork.c and alloc_thread_info() and friends in
<asm/thread_info.h>.

	Robert Love