Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 9 Jul 2005 20:35:59 -0700 | | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] compress the stack layout of do_page_fault(), x86 |
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On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:41:16PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> this patch pushes the creation of a rare signal frame (SIGBUS or > SIGSEGV) into a separate function, thus saving stackspace in the > main do_page_fault() stackframe. The effect is 132 bytes less of > stack used by the typical do_page_fault() invocation - resulting in > a denser cache-layout.
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