Messages in this thread | | | Date | 6 Jul 2004 14:10:23 +0200 | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:10:23 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: x86-64 documentation |
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On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:52:48PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote: > 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?
GS points to a per CPU data structure and the current task is read from that.
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