On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:35:30 +1000, Aboo Valappil <aboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, one important macro is "current" ( points to the tast_struct of > the running process ) which is actually derived from the stack pointer Being purely pedantic though... It's actually a thread_info structure bolted on the end of the kernel mode process stack in 2.6. This contains a pointer to the task_struct for the process, which the current macro may use should there not be a dedicated kernel mode register pointer for it. As Robert once had to remind me, on PowerPC r2 is used for this pointer when the kernel. Cheers, Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
