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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: trisha yad <trisha1march@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, mhocko@suse.cz,
	rientjes@google.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Issue with core dump
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:30:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111102113030.GE22462@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGr+u+wgAYVWgdcG6o+6F0mDzuyNzoOxvsFwq0dMsR3JNnZ-cA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 12:03:39PM +0530, trisha yad wrote:

> Thanks all for your answer.
> 
> In loaded embedded system the time at with code hit do_user_fault()
> and core_dump_wait() is bit
> high, I check on my  system it took 2.7 sec. so it is very much
> possible that core dump is not correct.
> It  contain global value updated.
> 
> So is it possible at time of send_signal() we can stop modification of
> faulty thread memory ?

On existing hardware it is impossible to take a consistent snapshot of a
multi-threaded application at the time of one thread faulting.

A software simulator can handle this sort of race condition but of course
this approach has other disadvantages.

  Ralf

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-02 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-01 12:17 Issue with core dump trisha yad
2011-11-01 15:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-11-01 15:59   ` Tejun Heo
2011-11-02  6:33   ` trisha yad
2011-11-02 11:30     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2011-11-02 15:31     ` Tejun Heo
2011-11-02 15:55       ` Oleg Nesterov

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