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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Hi!

> > 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 ?

That does not solve locks problem.
									Pavel
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