From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:52:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15705.29059.306202.720523@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D596B96.4000305@zytor.com>
>>>>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:27:02 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said:
>> I was, however, the flaws that you complained of had nothing to
>> do with the syscall -- it's all in the syscall wrapper (which is
>> required for clone(), like it or not.)
The issue is not whether a wrapper is needed or not.
My point is that it is cleaner to always describe stack areas as
memory areas (e.g., as a base/size pair). Note that this is
effectively what's happening in the platform-independent part of the
kernel today.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-13 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-13 15:09 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 15:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 16:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 18:32 ` [patch] CLONE_SETTLS, CLONE_SETTID, 2.5.31-BK Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 19:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 19:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-15 22:38 ` [patch] complain about unknown CLONE_* flags Jamie Lokier
2002-08-16 10:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-02 5:55 ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-13 16:09 ` [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 Erik Andersen
2002-08-13 16:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:32 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 16:44 ` John Levon
2002-08-13 19:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 20:19 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 20:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 20:52 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2002-08-13 20:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 16:56 ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-08-13 17:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-13 17:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 20:35 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-08-15 21:24 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-13 17:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-14 13:48 ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-14 18:47 ` Jamie Lokier
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