From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 23:25:59 +0000 Subject: RE: [PATCH] Kernel panic on IA-64 Linux with SELinux Message-Id: <16583.40071.498807.557162@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <013f01c44ddb$636d4aa0$f97d220a@linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <013f01c44ddb$636d4aa0$f97d220a@linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:44:09 -0700, "Luck, Tony" said: Tony> I think it would be better to fix up init_task so that it Tony> appeared to be in region 7 (that way it isn't a special case Tony> ... it just looks like every other task). BUT, I'm not sure Tony> how easy that is to do without surgery to generic files Tony> (places that use "&init_task"). For the particular case of the init_task, we could just fix it up at boot time (as suggested by the earlier patch). My bigger worry is that this will be an issue _whenever_ somebody initializes a linked list with a static initializer. There needs to be a way to protect from this happening accidentially. Without that, I'm not sure the virtual remapping is really viable. --david