function stack frames in the kernel

Augusto Mecking Caringi augustocaringi at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 12:55:10 EST 2018


On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 6:04 PM Carter Cheng <cartercheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am wondering how the compiler divines which stack to use for function calls and placement of locals and arguments when a function call is made inside the kernel since the kernel has multiple call stacks. Are function calls handled manually inside kernel code or is there something special inside the compiler for handling this?

I think this link can answer your question...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12911841/kernel-stack-and-user-space-stack

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Augusto Mecking Caringi



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