From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:49:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:49:46 -0500 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:36874 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:49:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:56:01 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Andy Pfiffer Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Suparna Bhattacharya , Jeff Garzik , "Matt D. Robinson" , Rusty Russell , Linux Kernel Mailing List , lkcd-general@lists.sourceforge.net, lkcd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: kexec (was: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.) Message-ID: <20021107195601.J10679@almesberger.net> References: <1036697556.10457.254.camel@andyp> <1036707232.10457.275.camel@andyp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1036707232.10457.275.camel@andyp>; from andyp@osdl.org on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:13:52PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/