From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Krishnappa Abhijith-A21204 <abhijith@motorola.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Regarding Address space in UML
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:14:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070315121404.GA3872@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0A01463223B8164194908CAC85B66A1201A96E8B@ZMY16EXM67.ds.mot.com>
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:19:37AM +0800, Krishnappa Abhijith-A21204 wrote:
> So Basically when we run a process in UML, the tracing thread enables
> tracing for that process.
You're talking about THE tracing thread. This is true if you're
referring to the obsolete tt mode of UML. However, now, the processes
(one per virtual CPU) that run the kernel also do the ptracing.
Your statement is correct, but the terminology is a bit off.
> Also I had a query on creation of a corresponding process on host...
> Why it is done in UML... I mean why a corresponding process gets created
> in HOST ? Is it to catch all the signals that host KERNEL delivers ?
Creating a process on the host is the only way to get a new host address
space.
Jeff
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2007-03-14 13:57 [uml-devel] Regarding Address space in UML Krishnappa Abhijith-A21204
2007-03-14 14:10 ` Jeff Dike
2007-03-15 3:19 ` Krishnappa Abhijith-A21204
2007-03-15 12:14 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
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