From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263778AbUGFLnn (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 07:43:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263784AbUGFLnn (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 07:43:43 -0400 Received: from grendel.digitalservice.pl ([217.67.200.140]:57775 "HELO mail.digitalservice.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263778AbUGFLnm (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 07:43:42 -0400 From: "R. J. Wysocki" Organization: SiSK To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: x86-64 documentation Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:52:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200407042046.20124.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> <200407061206.01734.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> <20040706113148.GA3050@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20040706113148.GA3050@muc.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407061352.48108.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 06 of July 2004 13:31, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:06:01PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Sunday 04 of July 2004 21:46, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:46:20PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > I've just read the Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt. Is it up to date? > > > > > > Mostly yes. > > > > How about kernel stacks? Are they still 16k or they are 8k now? > > They were always 8k Hm. Does this mean that one register is reserved for the task_struct pointer etc. (as stated in mm.txt) or is it done in a different way? rjw -- Rafael J. Wysocki ---------------------------- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard P. Feynman