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SubjectRe: [patch] 'coredump crash' fixed
MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> The reason why we crash and why it made the kernel
> reboot in such a nasty way was that munmap() did just a tad more work than
> necessary and we zapped 0xc0000000's page table entry ... that is a pretty
> vital piece of 4M virtual space on Linux ;) (erm, just dont ask me how i
> managed to debug this ;)

Which then unmapped the interrupt descriptor table, so the next
interrupt causes a triple-fault and resets the cpu. Don't you just love
off-by-one errors?

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Brian Gerst

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