From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262549AbVESPrh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 11:47:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262542AbVESPrh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 11:47:37 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:59056 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262549AbVESPrd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 11:47:33 -0400 Subject: Re: Why yield in coredump_wait? [was: Re: Resent: BUG in RT 45-01 when RT program dumps core] From: Lee Revell To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Linus Torvalds , kus Kusche Klaus , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1116509820.15866.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1116503763.15866.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1116509820.15866.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:47:31 -0400 Message-Id: <1116517651.21685.50.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:37 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Now if there were no other threads to wait on it would just continue. > So, is there some real reason that this yield is there? Or is it just > trying to be nice, as in saying, "I'm dieing now and just don't want to > waste others time" (which I highly doubt is the case). Why do you highly doubt this is the case? This is actually the behavior I would expect. Lee