Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:58:05 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 00/19] Non disruptive application core dump infrastructure using task_work_add() |
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On 10/07, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > > On 10/04/2013 07:14 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Couldn't they just use the new process_vm_readv() syscalls instead? > > AFAIK those do not require ptrace. > > > We need the register set and hence would need a ptrace.
Or the task itself can dump its memory/registers/whatever in responce to the request from dumper.
gencore_work() is only used to freeze the process, but it can do more?
Oleg.
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