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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: trisha yad <trisha1march@gmail.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>
Subject: Re: Issue with core dump
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:55:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111102155505.GA30500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111102153146.GC12543@dhcp-172-17-108-109.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 11/02, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> Also, the time between do_user_fault() and actual core dumping isn't
> the important factor here.  do_user_fault() directly triggers delivery
> of SIGSEGV (or BUS) and signal delivery will immediately deliver
> SIGKILL to all other threads in the process,

Not really, note the "if (!sig_kernel_coredump(sig))" check. And this
is what we can improve. But this is not simple, and personally I think
doesn't worth the trouble.

Oleg.

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-02 15:59 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
2011-11-02 15:31     ` Tejun Heo
2011-11-02 15:55       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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