Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:50:34 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: Re: what`s wrong? |
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:12:21PM +0800, Huo Zhigang wrote: ... > >The entire kernel stack is only 8kB in size. You have already killed > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >a bunch of random memory by allocating this much memory on the stack. > >You allocated 4*8192 = 32kB on the stack here. > > Sure, the kernel stack is 8192 Bytes, but "err_frame[]" is a local > variable. Does the kernel allocate memory for "err_frame[]" from the > stack??
It is not about how KERNEL does it, but how C (programming language) does it. If you don't know C's memory management things regarding various classes of variables, I suggest you pick some good reference book and study it asap.
> Here, I think, err_frame[] as a function parameter will take 8K in > the kernel stack. Am I correct?
Sorry, this isn't "programming in C"-education forum..
> Thank you.
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