From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:53:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:53:26 -0400 Received: from barbados.bluemug.com ([63.195.182.101]:54281 "EHLO barbados.bluemug.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:53:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:53:29 -0700 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] processes with shared vm Message-ID: <20010831165329.I16749@bluemug.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <997973469.7632.10.camel@pc-16.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <998038019.7627.21.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> <36530000.998058370@baldur> <20010817225537.B2429@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <6400000.998082950@baldur> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6400000.998082950@baldur> X-PGP-ID: 5C09BB33 X-PGP-Fingerprint: C518 67A5 F5C5 C784 A196 B480 5C97 3BBD 5C09 BB33 From: Mike Touloumtzis Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:15:50PM -0500, Dave McCracken wrote: > --On Friday, August 17, 2001 22:55:37 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > > >Also gtop should display correct results even with the programs > >that don't use CLONE_THREAD. > > Are there any programs that use CLONE_VM and not CLONE_THREAD? Yes, I have written an emulation layer for an embedded OS which does its own preemptive scheduling using signals. It uses CLONE_VM but not CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_SIGHAND. Currently it is very painful to debug with gdb :-(, although the multithreaded core dumps in -ac are a godsend. miket