Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 19 May 2006 18:11:25 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Gerd Hoffman's move-vsyscall-into-user-address-range patch |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > > > > > > Name: Move vsyscall page out of fixmap into normal vma as per mmap > > > > This causes mysterious hangs when starting init. > > > > Distro is RH FC1, running SysVinit-2.85-5. > > > > dmesg, sysrq-T and .config are at > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/log-vmm - nothing leaps > > out. > > > > This is the second time recently when a patch has caused this machine > > to oddly hang in init. It's possible that there's a bug of some form > > in that version of init that we'll need to know about and take care of > > in some fashion. > > FC1 is like really ancient. I think there was a glibc bug that caused > vsyscall related init hangs like that. To nevertheless let people run > their old stuff there's a vdso=0 boot option in exec-shield. >
Well that patch took a machine from working to non-working. Pretty serious stuff. We should get to the bottom of the problem so we can assess the risk and impact, no? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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