From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is this too ugly to merge?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:51:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119095129.GB219@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074473094.2361.104.camel@laptop-linux>
Hi!
> I'll take the following approach: I'm pretty sure that I've tried
> suspending userspace before kernel threads before, and still ran into
> possible deadlocks. Nevertheless, I'll set that up and then bang really
> hard on it using Michael's test scripts, and let you know the results.
> If and when we see that this approach won't cut the mustard, we can come
> back to considering this approach. Sound okay?
Well, I'd say "if this approach won't cut the mustard, and we
understand *why* it does not work". If we can find a way to deadlock
plain SIGSTOP, that's good, too, because someone will likely fix
it. (And if SIGSTOP is broken, intrusive patch is okay for fixing
that).
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-09 0:58 Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-09 4:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-01-09 4:50 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-09 5:35 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-13 10:45 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-13 11:49 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-19 0:44 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-19 9:51 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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