Messages in this thread | | | From | Vineet Gupta <> | Subject | semantics of KSTK_ESP and friends | Date | Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:10:06 +0000 |
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Hi,
Is KSTK_ESP supposed to return the kernel mode SP of a sleeping task or is it supposed to provide the user mode SP at the time of last kernel entry ?
The 2 non arch users of the API expect the user mode SP semantics: * vm_is_stack_for_task() - to annotate /proc/<pid>/maps stack vma - which is shere Alexey noted this. * do_task_stat()
ARC port uses these for unwinding the task of a sleeping task (hence kernel mode SP semantics). metag (from the looks of it) also seem to provide kernel mode value, while most others seem to provide the user mode variant.
I can fix ARC to work with expectation of generic code, but wanted to understand anyways.
Thx, -Vineet
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