From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: signalfd API issues (was Re: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:20:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070607022002.GA11977@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18023.14494.889739.567439@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:43:42AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> What Ben was talking about was stealing a synchronous SEGV from a task
> without stopping it, and as Ben says that makes no sense.
> Intercepting a signal and stopping the task is reasonable, and that is
> what ptrace does, and I assume also UML.
It is, but I can also see UML stealing the SEGV from the child. The
UML skas does this - a ptrace extension, PTRACE_FAULTINFO, is used to
extract page fault information from the child, and other pieces of the
patch are used to fix the fault without the child continuing until
it's fixed. So, in this case, the child never sees the SEGV.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-05 1:25 [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 1:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-05 2:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 2:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-05 3:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 6:09 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-05 7:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 23:51 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-06 0:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 0:11 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 0:15 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-06 0:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 0:58 ` signalfd API issues (was Re: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes) Nicholas Miell
2007-06-06 2:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 3:29 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 3:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-06 4:08 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-06 4:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 4:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 6:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 22:36 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-06 3:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 12:52 ` Jeff Dike
2007-06-06 22:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-06-07 2:20 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2007-06-07 3:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-07 13:59 ` Jeff Dike
2007-06-07 3:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 15:52 ` [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes Davide Libenzi
2007-06-05 22:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-05 22:50 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-05 22:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-06 0:11 ` Davide Libenzi
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