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

[Constantine Gavrilov]

Andi Kleen wrote:

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

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