Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0 | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:18:58 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > Kernel stack is TINY. On iX86 it's only 7KiB or so. And when you'll overflow > > if you'll corrupt you system badly, BTW. > > Doh! Ok, I need to learn more. I take it this means recursive in kernel > is totally a bad idea then?
You should assume you have at best 2-3K of stack to play with. You might have more but then the IRQ handlers want some too and they run on the current kernel tasks stack.
Alan
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