thread_info address calculation
Vijay Chauhan
kernel.vijay at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 08:16:03 EDT 2011
> It's the same thing as you read:
> THREAD size is 8kb so the operation looks like the following:
> current_stack_pointer & ~(8191) == current_stack_pointet & 0xFFFFFE00
> (last 13 bits are 0)
Ok. Got it.
But how ANDing it with current stack pointer points to the address of
thread_info structure.
Suppose stack is growing from higher to lower memory address.
Thanks,
Vijay
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