Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:56:01 -0300 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: kexec (was: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.) |
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Andy Pfiffer wrote: > I'm still pondering the kexec-ish reboot after panic() with this kind of > mechanism. Ah well, it's just an idea.
Yes, that's where the problems get really nasty. Also, for such cases, you want the pages to be mlock'ed. Furthermore, you'd have to tell init about this magic process. (Which would be tricky, because e.g. sysvinit simply uses kill(-1,...).)
- Werner
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