On Monday 05 June 2006 13:06, Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Sunday 04 June 2006 21:06, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > It isn't yet perfect, because we don't yet save floating point context.
> > > But that will come later. Additionally, there's a potential problem since
> > > RED zones will alternate stacks are used, unlike x86_64, so more stack
> > > space (128 bytes more) is used. But this shouldn't be a problem.
> > > Instead, having no red zone (like x86_64)
> >
> > x86-64 has a red zone.
> 
> On the alternate stack too? 

No, there not.

> The comment in the below code confused me... even  
> if when nesting signal frames sas_ss_flags(rsp) should be 0 and so the 
> redzone will be used.
> The below "RED-PEN" comment is probably wrong then... or not?
> 
> arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c:
>         /* RED-PEN: redzone on that stack? */

It's bogus because the alternative stack cannot be nested. I will remove it.



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