Re: [PATCH] RFC: Add signal command to trace events

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 06/26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > > +//ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_SIGNAL
> > > +static void
> > > +signal_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data)
> > > +{
> > > +	force_sig(SIGSTOP, current);
>
> Well, I don't like this. Imho, it would be nice to avoid signals here.
>
> And SIGSTOP in particular. It can interfere with the "real" SIGSTOP
> sent by user, with ptrace, with tty.

And I forgot to mention, note that SIGSTOP stops the whole thread group,
this is not what we want.

> I think we need something else... "STOP" is actually simple, but we need
> some interface which allows to wakeup a task sleeping in TASK_KILLABLE
> after it hits ETT_FREEZE.

Yes...

Oleg.

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