Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why yield in coredump_wait? [was: Re: Resent: BUG in RT 45-01 when RT program dumps core] | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Thu, 19 May 2005 14:05:53 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 18:43 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-05-19 at 18:25, Daniel Walker wrote: > > I've seen a RT yield warning on this yield while running the FUSYN > > tests .. I can't imagine why it's there either. > > Would it not make more sense to kick a task out of hard real time at the > point it begins dumping core. The core dumping sequence was never > something that thread intended to execute at real time priority >
That's what I recommended in an earlier email. I figured I'd wait to see Ingo's response before sending him any patches. The drop from RT should probably be after the zap_threads, that way it can kill those using the same mm right away. Which also goes to say, we should get rid of that yield.
-- Steve
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