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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <4145BA28.5020702@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Constantine Gavrilov <constg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
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