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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:31:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stack up or stack down.
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.991130132615.730A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <14404.5187.497998.940864@trooper.velocet.net>

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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, David Gilbert wrote:

> I'm trying to track down where vinum is trashing the kernel stack.  It 
> has been suggested that the only way to attack this it to rummage
> around the stack for a valid frame.  To that end, does the kernel
> stack build up (from low to high addresses) or down (high to low
> addresses) in FreeBSD?
> 

This is a question determined by the Intel hardware, not by FreeBSD. So it
should grow downwards (to lower addresses).  Wait, it may depend on how
an OS like FreeBSD sets the stack segment attributes...  I'd like to know
the answer.

-Zhihui



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