Re: kexec (was: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.)

Werner Almesberger (wa@almesberger.net)
Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:56:01 -0300


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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