On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 14:37 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Nathan Lynch (nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > > Something I missed earlier is that the stack_size you are passing in > > from user space is not actually the size of the stack. It's adjusted to > > account for arguments that have been placed at the end of the stack > > region. So stack_size becomes a value that you want the kernel to add > > to stack_base to get the desired stack pointer value in the child -- > > it's not a size at all. At this point we may as well communicate the > > desired stack pointer value directly (which could be denoted by > > stack_size == 0, or we could add another member to clone_args), or > > rename stack_size to stack_offset or similar. > > So do I understand correctly that the agreement (reached on irc) is > to keep passing in a stack_size, but enforce that it ==0 for all but > ia64? That is the approach I prefer. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
