Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69

Timothy Miller (miller@techsource.com)
Fri, 09 May 2003 12:50:28 -0400


Miles Bader wrote:
> Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> writes:
>
>>That is to say, some CPUs might have provision for a stack pointer to be
>>associated with each interrupt vector.
>
>
> On my arch, the CPU doesn't use the stack for interrupts at all...
> so any saving on the stack is what's done by entry.S.
>

Sure, but probably the majority are using x86 which would be affected by
some of the ideas we've talked about in this thread.

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