On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> | It's not realy a graph Bill. Each task has a list of acquired locks (
> | by address ). You keep __LINE__ and __FILE__ with you list items. When
> | there's a deadlock you'll have somewhere :
> |
> | TSK#N TSK#M
> | -------------
> | ... ...
> | LCK#I LCK#J
> | ... ...
> | -> LCK#J LCK#I
> |
> | Then with a SysReq key you dump the list of acquired locks for each task
> | who's spinning for a lock. IMO it might be usefull ...
>
> What's a task in this context? Are we (you) talking about
> kernel threads/drivers etc. or userspace?
Hi Randy,
a task here is anything you can identify with a task_struct*
- Davide
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