Le Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:22:49 +0100, "Grob Team" <grobteam@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > I was reading the chapter of process Management in the book Linux > Kernel Development and I see many references of "process's kernel > stack". AFAIK, processes don't have stack in the kernel, They do. Each process has a kernel stack and a user stack. The user stack is used to execute the regular user-space application code, and can be extended dynamically. The kernel stack is used to execute the kernel code on behalf of the process, for example system calls. This stack has a fixed size, of either 8 Kb or 4 Kb on x86. Of course, kernel threads only have a kernel stack, they don't need a user stack. Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Free Embedded Linux Training Materials on http://free-electrons.com/training (More than 1500 pages!)
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