Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty]
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:29:20 +0100 (BST)
> > You cant swap kernel stacks. They have stuff on them touched from other
> > contexts. Im just talking about code space that isnt needed from interrupt
> > context or for paging and is easily lockable as 2.3 item
>
> You mean I could have a "struct timer" or "struct waitq" on there?
> I tried that yesterday, but it crashed once the timer went off..... :-)
> (May have been something else that was wrong though....)
The kernel regularly puts wait queues on the stack. Timers should work although
I've not seen an instance of this
No I mean code like most of the ipchains config and network device configuration
code, mount option parsing code - that sort of stuff
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