Re: x86-64 documentation

[R. J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday 06 of July 2004 13:31, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:06:01PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 of July 2004 21:46, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:46:20PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > I've just read the Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt.  Is it up to date?
> > >
> > > Mostly yes.
> >
> > How about kernel stacks?  Are they still 16k or they are 8k now?
>
> They were always 8k

Hm.  Does this mean that one register is reserved for the task_struct pointer 
etc. (as stated in mm.txt) or is it done in a different way?

rjw

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