Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Multithreaded coredump patch where? | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 17 Dec 2002 13:08:16 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 12:05, Roberto Fichera wrote: > At 13.21 16/12/02 -0800, mgross wrote: > > >I haven't rebased the patches I posted back in June for a while now. > > > >Attached is the patch I posted for the 2.4.18 vanilla kernel. Its a bit > >controversial, but it seems to work for a number of folks. Let me know if > >you have any troubles re-basing it. > > Only one hunk failed on include/asm-ia64/elf.h but fixed by hand. > Why do you say a bit controversial ? The design has theoretical (but probably in practice not trivial to trigger) deadlocks; by design it prevents processes that are sleeping from running, regardless whether those processes are in kernel space or not. If they are in kernel space, they can accidentally be holding a semaphore that something in the core dumping path will need to get ( [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |