From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: x86: only single-step into signal handlers if the tracer
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:10:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100520649.657.9.camel@boxen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041114184456.6bfd07d3.akpm@osdl.org>
> > This reminds me of a problem I am seeing under recent -bk kernels.
> >
> > Mozilla (FC2) will freeze (no screen redraws, etc.). 'ps xf' shows
> > mozilla sleeping. If I strace the process, Mozilla will un-freeze and
> > continue as expected.
> >
>
> Presumably the futex thing:
>
This patch seems to fix it for me, recently various programs have got
stuck in pthread_condition_wait (this on x86-64).
When that happened I did gdb --pid and then 'continue' which made it
wake up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-15 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200411150203.iAF23Trb024677@hera.kernel.org>
2004-11-15 2:20 ` x86: only single-step into signal handlers if the tracer Jeff Garzik
2004-11-15 2:44 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-15 12:10 ` Alexander Nyberg [this message]
2004-11-18 15:42 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc2] x86_64: only single-step into signal handlers if the tracer asked for it Tom Rini
2004-11-18 20:46 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
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