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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Vamsi Krishna S ." <vamsi@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Gross, Mark" <mark.gross@intel.com>,
	"'Erich Focht'" <efocht@ess.nec.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"'Bharata B Rao'" <bharata@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH Multithreaded core dump support for the 2.5.14 (and 15) kernel.
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 14:04:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020515140448.C37@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59885C5E3098D511AD690002A5072D3C057B485B@orsmsx111.jf.intel.com> <20020515120722.A17644@in.ibm.com>

Hi!

> To respond to your specific question, if a thread happens to be in 
> kernel mode when some other thread is dumping core (capturing
> register state of other threads, to be more accurate) then
> we would capture the _user mode_ register of that thread from the
> bottom of it's kernel stack. GDB will show back trace untill the
> thread entered kernel (int 0x80), eip will be pointing to the
> instruction after the system call (return address).

Okay, what about:

Thread 1 is in kernel and holds lock A. You need lock A to dump state.
When you move 1 to phantom runqueue, you loose ability to get A and
deadlock.

What prevents that?
								Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-15 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-14 16:38 PATCH Multithreaded core dump support for the 2.5.14 (and 15) kernel Gross, Mark
2002-05-15  6:37 ` Vamsi Krishna S .
2002-05-15 14:04   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-05-15 20:53     ` Mark Gross
2002-05-16 10:11       ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-20 15:44 Gross, Mark
2002-05-17 12:26 Erich Focht
     [not found] <59885C5E3098D511AD690002A5072D3C057B485B@orsmsx111.jf.intel.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <20020515120722.A17644@in.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20020515140448.C37@toy.ucw.cz.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]     ` <200205152353.g4FNrew30146@unix-os.sc.intel.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-05-16 12:54       ` Andi Kleen
2002-05-16 14:13         ` Mark Gross
2002-05-16 17:27           ` Andi Kleen
2002-05-16 17:36             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-16 18:08               ` Mark Gross
2002-05-16 21:32                 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-16 21:24                   ` Robert Love
2002-05-16 18:40                     ` Mark Gross
2002-05-13 19:17 Mark Gross
2002-05-14 15:35 ` Erich Focht

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