From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:43:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041104004342.GD5283@kurtwerks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411031540.03598.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:40:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett took 89 lines to write:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 15:13, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >
> >Yes it does - the problem is that not all resources are managed
> >by processes. Some allocations are managed by drivers, so a driver
> >bug can get the device into a unuseable state _and_ tie up the
> >process(es) that were using the driver at the moment.
>
> This from my viewpoint, is wrong. The kernel, and only the kernel
> should be ultimately responsible for handing out resources, and
> reclaiming at its convienience.
This might just be semantics, but device drivers are part of the kernel.
Kurt
--
In 1750 Issac Newton became discouraged when he fell up a flight of
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Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 12:51 is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 14:33 ` bert hubert
2004-11-03 14:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 15:25 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 15:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 17:49 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 16:47 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 17:44 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 18:53 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:01 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-03 19:03 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 19:24 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:33 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-03 19:34 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 19:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-03 19:26 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-03 20:09 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 19:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-03 19:42 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 23:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 10:26 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 14:23 ` Paul Slootman
2004-11-04 14:56 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 18:24 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 19:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 20:53 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 19:26 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 20:18 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 22:15 ` Jim Nelson
2004-11-03 22:44 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-03 23:03 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-03 23:33 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-03 23:47 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-11-03 23:56 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-04 0:05 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-11-04 6:39 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-11-05 2:38 ` Elladan
2004-11-05 3:10 ` Tim Connors
2004-11-05 3:17 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-05 4:38 ` Elladan
2004-11-05 5:00 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-04 20:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-03 23:06 ` vlobanov
2004-11-04 10:04 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-04 17:16 ` Alex Bennee
2004-11-04 16:30 ` Pedro Venda (SYSADM)
2004-11-04 22:28 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-03 23:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 1:19 ` Michael Clark
2004-11-04 16:01 ` kernel
2004-11-04 16:18 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 16:47 ` kernel
2004-11-04 17:58 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 22:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 10:23 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 19:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 21:11 ` DervishD
2004-11-09 23:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-10 9:11 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 23:18 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-03 16:38 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 16:24 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 16:46 ` linux-os
2004-11-03 19:12 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:56 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 20:13 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-03 20:40 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 0:43 ` Kurt Wall [this message]
2004-11-04 1:01 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-04 1:38 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-04 1:45 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-04 1:56 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-04 1:59 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-11-04 20:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 10:07 ` Matthias Andree
2004-11-04 22:31 ` Peter Chubb
2004-11-04 23:33 ` Benno
2004-11-03 20:48 ` Tom Felker
2004-11-03 21:08 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 7:19 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-04 11:57 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 12:12 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-04 12:18 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 12:29 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-04 13:56 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 12:39 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 13:01 ` Ian Campbell
2004-11-04 14:07 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 14:24 ` Ian Campbell
2004-11-04 15:10 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 14:26 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 15:13 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 13:10 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-04 14:11 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 14:42 ` tlaurent
2004-11-04 15:14 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 20:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-05 0:29 ` Gene Heskett
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