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SubjectRe: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
Russell Miller wrote:
> Couldn't ring 1 be used to make
> sure an errant driver doesn't drop the kernel, at least on x86 machines?

Not really -- drivers could still do things like mis-program their associated
hardware making it do DMA writes all over kernel memory (just as one example)

Basically it'd add a lot of complexity (and inefficiency) without adding
much real safety.

-Mitch
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