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

H. Peter Anvin
2004-09-13T19:39:13Z

Followup to: <4145BA28.5020702@qlusters.com>
By author: Constantine Gavrilov <constg@qlusters.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I can implement differently what I want, though it will be somewhat
> kludgy and kernel depenedent (depends on a version and distribution). I
> wanted to avoid that. Since what I write is really an application and
> not interface, it was very "native" to use application syscall approach.
>
> My real problem is not how to implement it. I want to understand this
> specific x86_64 problem.
>

Put it in userspace. Really.

-hpa