Re: 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.

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Wed, 22 May 2002 14:17:47 +0000


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

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