Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 09:57:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> The I/O to dump the core would race other changes on the mm. The
> right fix is probably to copy the mm (as fork does) then dump the
> copy.
>
> Stupid question... but since all threads see the same memory space as
> each other; can we not lock the entire vma for the process whilst
> it's being written out?
It would need a recursive mm semaphore -- core dumps can page fault and page
faults take the semaphore again. Other alternative is to copy the MM like
fork before dumping, but then core dumping could fail much quicker when you
ran out of memory.
-Andi
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