From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
jan.kratochvil@redhat.com,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Proposal for ptrace improvements
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:03:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mtyf6wm0y.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110309102855.GC27010@htj.dyndns.org> (Tejun Heo's message of "Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:28:55 +0100")
Hi -
tj wrote:
> [...]
>> I've said before more than once what I think are the important
>> principles about compatibility that ought to be maintained [...]
> The biggest changes the current ptrace users are gonna see are
> probably the ones from P1 and those are really corner cases - /proc
> state, behavior change visible only to other thread in a multithreaded
> debugger [...]
> Also, ptrace is inherently a very heavy mechanism. [...]
> If someone is looking for completely transparent light weight
> monitoring [look elsewhere...]
> I skipped a lot of parts but in general I think that you're trying
> to do too much with ptrace. ptrace has its place which is called
> debugging. [...]
Take care not to define your problems away by something close to a
false dichotomy: intrusive ptrace vs. transparent tracing. One needs
transparent enough debugging too, so that the presence of the debugger
does not subvert the occurrence of complex or transient phenomena.
This hazard is especially acute for multithreaded programs. While
ptrace is known to be an imperfect substrate for multithreaded
debugging, it would be nice not to make it any worse.
Note that I'm not claiming that your current proposals necessarily
would do so, but the argument for treating ptrace as machinery
appropriate only for "heavy-weight diddling" could lead that way.
- FChE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 15:24 [RFC] Proposal for ptrace improvements Tejun Heo
2011-03-01 16:57 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-01 17:09 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-01 17:12 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-01 17:21 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-01 18:34 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-01 23:51 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-02 7:10 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-02 5:07 ` Indan Zupancic
2011-03-02 7:44 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-02 11:32 ` Indan Zupancic
2011-03-02 11:52 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-02 14:50 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-02 13:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-03 0:47 ` Indan Zupancic
2011-03-03 1:30 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-03 1:55 ` Indan Zupancic
2011-03-03 7:03 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-01 19:06 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-01 22:14 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-02 7:28 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-02 10:58 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-04 16:14 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-04 16:41 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-04 17:07 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-04 18:12 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-05 8:47 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-01 22:59 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-02 7:32 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-02 11:02 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-02 11:23 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-03 19:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-01 23:16 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-02 7:37 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-02 11:21 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-02 11:27 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-02 11:48 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-02 14:43 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-02 15:16 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-02 15:25 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-03 17:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-03 20:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-04 8:23 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-04 18:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-05 8:33 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-04 13:01 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-04 13:41 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-04 13:59 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-04 14:07 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-04 14:31 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-04 14:40 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-04 17:05 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-04 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-04 18:59 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-03-04 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-04 16:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-04 16:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-04 8:44 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-04 16:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-04 16:15 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-04 16:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-07 15:08 ` PTRACE_SEIZE/INTERRUPT: " Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-09 9:41 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 17:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-07 20:43 ` Roland McGrath
2011-03-09 10:28 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-10 18:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-11 8:13 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-11 8:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-11 9:35 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-03-11 9:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 1:03 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2011-03-10 15:55 ` Steven Rostedt
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