From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] persistence of schedlock mode
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 19:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005121957.34851.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BEAEEB0.5040202@vmware.com>
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 19:08:48, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Bug 11580 points out a problem related to persistence of the
> scheduler locking mode. If you set the mode to "on" (which
> means that only one thread can run), and then kill and restart
> your program, the mode persists and your program may deadlock.
>
> I don't think this is a problem for mode "step", and it could
> be argued that mode "on" is "use at your own risk". However
> I've been thinking about how to resolve it, and this simple
> but intrusive patch is what I come up with.
>
> Comments?
I think this is not a good idea. (I added a larger comment on
the PR before noticing this email).
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-12 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-12 18:08 Michael Snyder
2010-05-12 19:25 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2010-05-12 19:49 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-05-17 10:33 ` Pierre Muller
2010-05-17 15:29 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-05-17 17:34 ` Michael Snyder
2010-05-17 13:20 ` Nathan Froyd
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