Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:42:08 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Constantine Gavrilov <constg@qlusters.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, bugs@x86-64.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Calling syscalls from x86-64 kernel results in a crash on Opteron machines
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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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