well I'm fairly noobish, but it seems to me that we would need to know the size of the arguments, and the return values of the function, but I really doubt that a 4 deep recursion would cause a stack overflow unless you were returning some data that was 1k long or something. ~Jake B On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:31:43 +0530, Nilanjan Roychowdhury <nilanjan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I am calling a function recursively in the context of a kernel thread. Max > no of recursion is 4. Is there any chance of stack overflow??? I am not sure > of the stack allocated to my kernel thread. I only know the size of the > total kernel stack which is 8k. > > Please help. > > Nilanjan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
