Re: PATCH Multithreaded core dumps for the 2.5.17 kernel was ....RE: PATCH Multithreaded core dump support for the 2.5.14 (aO

From: Daniel Jacobowitz (dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 18:29:47 EST

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... 

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software                              Debian Security Team
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