* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. FC1 is like really ancient. I think there was a glibc bug that caused vsyscall related init hangs like that. To nevertheless let people run their old stuff there's a vdso=0 boot option in exec-shield. Ingo