From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] linux_nat_kill() compat. with linux-2.4.x
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 10:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140609103245.GA29982@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53958C88.4070209@redhat.com>
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:29:28 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 06/06/2014 09:15 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > It also may hang somewhere else and not in linux_nat_kill().
>
> Right. I'd say it's much more likely (even though not very likely, tbc)
> that we see hangs elsewhere than in linux_nat_kill now. E.g., GDB core's
> is_executing state getting out of sync with lwp->stopped.
>
> > This patch made GDB foolproof against any state of inferior when killing the
> > inferior so that GDB could no longer hang. But it would hide some possible
> > remaining bugs in the code (which may be causing the GDB hangs).
>
> Right, I'd rather just fix the GDB bugs, and only consider such a patch
> if we need to work around a kernel bug (though I'd rather just
> ignore very old kernels like 2.4 by now).
OK, so according to the approach chosen above considering this patch dropped.
Jan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-09 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-16 13:59 Jan Kratochvil
2014-05-21 12:49 ` Pedro Alves
2014-06-06 20:15 ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-06-09 10:29 ` Pedro Alves
2014-06-09 10:32 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
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