Simple question about getting stack size

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Hi

Trying to do something very simple and failing miserably...

I want to dump out the amount of stack size I have left at different
points in my LKM driver.
In order to do this I believe I need to know the value of 'current' and
'esp'.

However, I'm getting wildly different values for them using this code:

      printk("esp=%08X  current=%08X \n", 
                        (uint)current_stack_pointer, 
                        (uint)current );

Outputs:
esp=237B5C19  current=0D8BE8B0

The value for current seems wrong, shouldn't it align on a page boundary
?

I must be doing something stupid ?
I'm using a kernel of 2.6.5 (FC2).

Thanks
dom

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