From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:42:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:42:48 -0400 Received: from artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.1.28]:23013 "EHLO artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:42:41 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Erich Focht To: mark.gross@intel.com Subject: Re: PATCH Multithreaded core dump support for the 2.5.14 (and 15) kernel. Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:35:36 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] In-Reply-To: <200205132218.g4DMIEw14788@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Vamsi Krishna S ." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200205141735.36262.efocht@ess.nec.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Mark! Thanks for sending the new patch, I'd be interested in the testprograms :-) BTW: any idea what happens when a thread which is suspended happens to be in kernel mode? Guess this could be possible with 2.5.X... Does gdb handle that? Regards, Erich On Monday 13 May 2002 21:17, you wrote: > The following patch for 2.5.14 kernel, applies cleanly to the 2.5.15 > kernel. > > This work has been tested on the 2.5.14 kernel using a few pthread > applications to dump core, from SIGQUIT and SIGSEV. This unit test has been > done on both 2 and 4 way systems. Further, some stress testing has been > done where, the core files have been created while the system is under > schedule stress from the chat room benchmark running while creating the > core files. This implementation seems to be quit stable under a busy > scheduler, YMMV. These test programs are available uppon request ;)