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

Constantine Gavrilov
2004-09-13T15:39:39Z

Andi Kleen wrote:

>Constantine Gavrilov <constg@qlusters.com> writes:
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>>Can someone explain the reason for the crash? Can you think of a
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>syscall/sysret don't support recursive calls. That's the price for
>being fast.
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I do not think recursive calls are used here. Do I miss something?

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