Re: Calling syscalls from x86-64 kernel results in a crash on Opteron machines

Greg KH
2004-09-13T16:48:45Z

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:05:52PM +0300, Constantine Gavrilov wrote:
> What I am writing is an application, and not interface. As such, it is
> not much different from its requierements from a user-space application.
> If user-space application may call system calls, why a kernel space
> application cannot?
>
> And BTW, kernel-space applications have their own place even if the
> concept seems foreign to you.

What kind of application is this?

And do you have a link to your source code available?

thanks,

greg k-h