Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:18:50 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks |
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:00:07PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > Couldn't ndiswrapper have its own private stack to switch to when > calling the windows driver, or are there still things hanging off the > end of the stack area?
It's possible, but would need a change to how the kernel finds the thread local data (which is currently done by masking off the stack pointer). There are certainly a few ways of doing this, like using tr to find out which cpu we're on and then indexing into the thread info state.
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