Re: kernel stack size

[Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>]

ooyama eiichi wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
>
> > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:46:34AM +0900, ooyama eiichi wrote:
> >
> >
> > > How can I know the rest size of the kernel stack.
> >
> > you can't in a platfork-independant way
>
>
> in i386 and ia64.
>
>
> > > (in my kernel driver)
> >
> > *why* do you want to do this?
>
>
> because my driver hungs the machine by an certain ioctl.
> and it seems to me there is no bad in the code correspond to 
> the ioctl, except for that it is using large auto variables.
> (some functions are useing ~1KB autos)

That's your problem.  Use kmalloc instead of large local variables.

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				Brian Gerst
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