> It is my understanding that there is one kernel stack. If there
> is a stack allocated for some "transition", and I guess there
> may be, because of the mail I'm getting, then it has absolutely
> no purpose whatsoever and is wasted valuable non-paged RAM.
>
> The reason why system-call parameters are passed in registers
> is so that we didn't have the overhead of copying stuff from a
> user stack to a kernel stack.
>
> Does anybody know (not guess) if this was stuff added for the
> new non-interrupt 0x80 syscall code? I want to know how a
> simple kernel got corrupted into this twisted thing.
>
> Anybody who has a copy of any of the Intel manuals since '386
> knows that there needs to be only one kernel stack.
I don't believe anyone is guessing here :)
- Davide
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