Re: Calling syscalls from x86-64 kernel results in a crash on Opteron machines

From: Greg KH (greg_at_kroah.com)
Date: 09/13/04

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    Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:42:08 -0700
To: Constantine Gavrilov <constg@qlusters.com>

    On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:05:52PM +0300, Constantine Gavrilov wrote:
    > What I am writing is an application, and not interface. As such, it is
    > not much different from its requierements from a user-space application.
    > If user-space application may call system calls, why a kernel space
    > application cannot?
    >
    > And BTW, kernel-space applications have their own place even if the
    > concept seems foreign to you.

    What kind of application is this?

    And do you have a link to your source code available?

    thanks,

    greg k-h
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