Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:48:58 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] x86: lds - Use THREAD_SIZE instead of numeric constant |
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Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > Yes Sam, I've read Peter and Ingo comments on this patch > (actually I sent the same patch maybe week ago and Peter > and Ingo told me that we use %fs,%gs now for stack) but > as I pointed in comment - this alignment is still using > by Xen and lguest and even x86. So - it would be really > usefull for me if someone give me the last point - YES we > use such an alignment for stack, NO - we don't use it at all. > I was trying to hadle this myself - but I'm not a specialist > in this area you know ;) >
It bugs me quite a bit that paravirt clients contain this hack open-coded, but that's not *your* fault. There probably should be a macro to encapsulate the stack pointer location for a specific thread.
-hpa
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