Hi People, I have a query about linux process and thread model. Every process has a 8KB of kernel stack, out of which some 960 bytes are reserved for task_struct. Now, task_struct uniquely identifies a process. That means, if any kernel thread of currently running process wants to access task_struct of the process, then it has to retrieve the corresponding task_struct by manipulating esp register, since task_struct lies at the bottom of the stack area allocated to every process. Now, above scenario is only possible if all the kernel threads of currently running process share the same kernel stack area allocated to the process. Is this true that kernel threads share kernel stack area allocated to a process? Nitin -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
