On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:43 -0700, Andrew Morton 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. > hmm curious; FC1 already had the Exec Shield patchkit... otoh no vsyscall table I suppose
