From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964786AbWETBYX (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 21:24:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964787AbWETBYX (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 21:24:23 -0400 Received: from vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net ([216.142.194.234]:45257 "EHLO vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964786AbWETBYX (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 21:24:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gerd Hoffman's move-vsyscall-into-user-address-range patch From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rusty Russell , mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, kraxel@suse.de, zach@vmware.com In-Reply-To: <20060519174303.5fd17d12.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1147759423.5492.102.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060516064723.GA14121@elte.hu> <1147852189.1749.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060519174303.5fd17d12.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 03:24:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1148088250.3069.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:43 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Rusty Russell 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. > hmm curious; FC1 already had the Exec Shield patchkit... otoh no vsyscall table I suppose