From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] running strace utility can cause system to hang at sys_ptrace
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:45:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060713184559.GA30462@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B689B9.3090902@sgi.com>
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:24:40AM -0700, Jay Lan wrote:
> >We ran into a system hang problem at sys_ptrace.
> >
> >The system may hang if a user attempts to "strace" a pthreaded
> >application that is making frequent calls to pthread_create &
> >pthread_exit.
> >The hang is caused by a task sleeping (yield()) while holding the
> >tasklist_lock.
> >
> >Note that the problem appears to exist ONLY on IA64. IA64 has an
> >ARCH-specific implementation of sys_ptrace().
And David's patch to get rid of this ia64-special would fix this aswell:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m\x111575781225495&w=2
Note that this patch would need some updates for merging these days:
- make ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs and architecture hook aswell, so
that ia64 can use the generic ptrace code
- kmalloc return value needs checking
- adjust coding style to match the normal linux style now that
arch/ia64/ adheres to it.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-13 17:58 [BUG] running strace utility can cause system to hang at sys_ptrace Jay Lan
2006-07-13 18:24 ` Jay Lan
2006-07-13 18:45 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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