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From: Erland Lewin <erl@voxi.com>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>,
	Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@async.com.br>
Subject: Re: /proc/<pid>/stat read hang with Mozilla in 2.4.14
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:05:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0FB379.4675B275@voxi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C0F510C.E535A9A8@voxi.com> <3C0F9A53.10508@colorfullife.com>

I wrote of hangs reading various /proc/<pid>/files after a Mozilla
crash.

Manfred Spraul replied:
> 
> Could you check if mozilla was in the middle of a coredump? There is a
> deadlock in the coredump handler, perhaps mozilla triggered it.
> Could you search for a recent coredump file?
> 

Yes, I found a matching core dump (core.8770).
  Is there any other information I can help with?
  What is the status of the deadlock problem - has it been fixed in the
latest kernel?

> Or check if PF_DUMPCORE is set in tsk->flags. (Probably difficult
> without access to /proc/n/stat)

/Erland

      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-06 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-06 11:05 /proc/<pid>/stat read hang with Mozilla in 2.4.14 Erland Lewin
     [not found] ` <3C0F9A53.10508@colorfullife.com>
2001-12-06 18:05   ` Erland Lewin [this message]

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