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SubjectRe: PATCH Multithreaded core dumps for the 2.5.17 kernel was ....RE: PATCH Multithreaded core dump support for the 2.5.14 (and 15) kernel.
Hi!

> > > Nice. This also closes another issue pointed out: freezing
> > > a process while it is holding the mmap_sem, which may be needed later
> > > while collecting thread registers on IA64.
> > >
> > > Now that Linus has accepted Pavel's swsusp, do you have any thoughts
> > > on using Pavel's scheme to freeze processes?
> >
> > I attempt half of signal delivery to the threads, but that should not be
> > a problem. Currently freezing stuff is there only for CONFIG_SWSUSP case,
> > but it is probably small enough to be there unconditionaly.
> > Pavel
>
> I think that although my tcore_suspend_threads and Pavel's freeze_processes
> have similar results, I don't think using Pavel's approach for the core dump
> is a good idea.
>
> 1) SMP is a stability problem. I want TCore to work for 2.4x kernels
> soon.
> 2) To avoid the issues with I/O bound threads waking up, Pavel's design waits
> for the signal to get them running and then drops them in the "refrigerator".
>
> My design is explicitly going for the most accurate core dump it can.
> If I need to wait for processes to wake up and get frozen on a large SMB box
> then we can loose a lot of accuracy.

Okay.

> I do however; think Pavels work could benefit from using some of my approach.
> It might simplify all those places where his patch tests p->state |
> PK_FREEZE and then calls refrigerator. It perhaps make it work better for
> SMP if software suspend is considered a usefull feature on a SMP systems.

swsusp definitely is usable on SMP system. Take server with not-hotpluggable
pci andpci card you want to add. How do you add it with minimum impact on
users?

suspend/add card/resume
Pavel
PS: I did not yet test swsusp on SMP, through. But I'd like it to work.
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