Re: [uml-devel] Building/runing UML in SMP mode

[Jeff D. <jd...@ad...>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:22:46PM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Jeff Dike<jd...@ad...> wrote:
> >
> > The problem with SMP on skas0
> 
> Does that mean that it works more easily on skas3?

Yup.  That completely avoids ptrace issues.  I think things should
just about work at that point.  When you have multiple threads on
different CPUs running simultaneously, they will just switch
themselves into the appropriate address space.  I can't think of any
problems with this offhand.

> > I actually had this somewhat working, but the code was a horror show,
> > with much nastiness about ignoring the signals that are needed in
> > order to prevent a detached process from running.
> >
> 
> So it's probably not on the horizon any time soon then?

No - I haven't done much with UML in a while...

				Jeff

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