linux-kernel - Re: Issue with core dump

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Date:	Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:55:05 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	trisha yad <trisha1march@...il.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, mhocko@...e.cz,
	rientjes@...gle.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Issue with core dump

On 11/02, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> Also, the time between do_user_fault() and actual core dumping isn't
> the important factor here.  do_user_fault() directly triggers delivery
> of SIGSEGV (or BUS) and signal delivery will immediately deliver
> SIGKILL to all other threads in the process,

Not really, note the "if (!sig_kernel_coredump(sig))" check. And this
is what we can improve. But this is not simple, and personally I think
doesn't worth the trouble.

Oleg.

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