Kernel thread stack usage

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Nov 11, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Also, and others may want to pipe in on this, it might go in
> machine dependent code because it is *theoretically* we could port  
> one day to a machine with an upward growing stack.

This is not theoretical at all: On ia64 there are 2 stacks. One
growing down and one growing up. The downward stack is used for
stack-based variables and the pward growing stack is used by
the processor for stacked registers.

The code suggested will not be meaningful on ia64.

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