Thank you all for your replies. > If you want details about how to determine the task_struct from SP, I > can get into that, although it's subject to change. Using "current" it > the normal technique. Yes, I want to determine the "task_struct" from the SP. According to what I read, on x86 "current" is calculated by masking out the 13 least significant bits of the stack pointer to obtain the "thread_info" structure and consequently the "task_struct". Is that what you had in mind? Another question is if the "task_struct" is allocated in contiguous memory space as I don't see a "packed" attribute in the structure definition. If yes, do you know of an easy way of finding the offset of the "mm" field of the structure so that I can obtain its value? I guess a way is by finding it manually from the structure definition but it seems quite complex. Thanks again, John K. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
