On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:04:16PM +0200, Alex Dowad wrote: > The 'stack_size' argument is never used to pass a stack size. It's only used > when > forking a kernel thread, in which case it is an argument which should be > passed > to the 'main' function which the kernel thread executes. Hence, rename it to > 'kthread_arg'.
That's not the only use of stack_size. Take a look at the clone2 system call (very minimally documented in the clone manpage) and the implementation of copy_thread on ia64, which does use stack_size in the non-kthread path. - Josh Triplett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/