From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 19:30:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 19:30:34 -0400 Received: from crack.them.org ([65.125.64.184]:57611 "EHLO crack.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 19:30:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:29:47 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Alan Cox Cc: mgross@unix-os.sc.intel.com, Pavel Machek , "Vamsi Krishna S." , Gross Mark , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, r1vamsi@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: PATCH Multithreaded core dumps for the 2.5.17 kernel was ....RE: PATCH Multithreaded core dump support for the 2.5.14 (aO Message-ID: <20020522182947.A16176@crack.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , mgross@unix-os.sc.intel.com, Pavel Machek , "Vamsi Krishna S." , Gross Mark , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, r1vamsi@in.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <200205222043.g4MKhsw06808@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:07:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I think that although my tcore_suspend_threads and Pavel's freeze_processes > > have similar results, I don't think using Pavel's approach for the core dump > > is a good idea. > > Migrating a task to a specific processor is also remarkably related. How does > it wash out if the suspend thread/freeze process stuff works by migrating > all the processes to a CPU that doesnt exist ? I was under the impression that this is exactly how Mark was doing it, actually. Issues with semaphores aside... -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team