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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: "Botond Dénes" <bdenes@scylladb.com>
Cc: GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1] Support inspecting green threads
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:33:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOr4BxZsb4pqM8En63WtpOn3XLH8xa-WQBB3LWyMWKiUvw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200814152557.2128464-1-bdenes@scylladb.com>

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 8:29 AM Botond Dénes <bdenes@scylladb.com> wrote:
>
> Some applications use green threads that have their own stacks. One such
> example is Scylla [1] which is using the seastar framework [2], which
> provides green threads in the form of seastar::thread [3]. These threads
> are created with `setcontext()` and later we switch in/out using
> `setjmp()`/`longjmp()`
>

FYI, Intel CET doesn't allow switching ucontext created by setcontext
with setjmp/longjmp.  setcontext or swapcontext must be used.

-- 
H.J.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-14 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-14 15:25 Botond Dénes
2020-08-14 15:27 ` Botond Dénes
2020-08-14 15:33 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2020-08-17 21:34 ` Tom Tromey
2020-08-19 12:14   ` Botond Dénes
2020-09-10 21:24     ` Tom Tromey

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