From: Tony Battersby <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
Olivier Langlois <[email protected]>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>,
Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>,
linux-fsdevel <[email protected]>,
io-uring <[email protected]>,
Alexander Viro <[email protected]>,
"Pavel Begunkov>" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coredump: Limit what can interrupt coredumps
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:53:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On 8/11/21 9:55 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> That is very interesting. Like Olivier mentioned, it's not that actual
> commit, but rather the change of behavior implemented by it. Before that
> commit, we'd hit the async workers more often, whereas after we do the
> correct retry method where it's driven by the wakeup when the page is
> unlocked. This is purely speculation, but perhaps the fact that the
> process changes state potentially mid dump is why the dump ends up being
> truncated?
>
> I'd love to dive into this and try and figure it out. Absent a test
> case, at least the above gives me an idea of what to try out. I'll see
> if it makes it easier for me to create a case that does result in a
> truncated core dump.
>
If it helps, a "good" coredump from my program is about 350 MB
compressed down to about 7 MB by bzip2. A truncated coredump varies in
size from about 60 KB to about 2 MB before compression. The program
that receives the coredump uses bzip2 to compress the data before
writing it to disk.
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-12 14:13 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <[email protected]>
[not found] ` <[email protected]>
[not found] ` <87h7i694ij.fsf_-_@disp2133>
2021-06-09 20:33 ` [RFC] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL Linus Torvalds
2021-06-09 20:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-09 20:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-09 21:02 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-09 21:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-09 21:26 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-09 21:56 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-10 14:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-10 15:17 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-10 18:58 ` [CFT}[PATCH] coredump: Limit what can interrupt coredumps Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-10 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-10 19:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-10 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-10 20:11 ` [PATCH] " Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-10 21:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-12 14:36 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-12 16:26 ` Jens Axboe
2021-06-14 14:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2021-06-14 16:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-14 16:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2021-06-15 22:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 19:23 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-06-16 20:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-18 20:05 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-05 13:06 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-10 21:48 ` Tony Battersby
2021-08-11 20:47 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-12 1:55 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-12 13:53 ` Tony Battersby [this message]
2021-08-15 20:42 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-16 13:02 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-08-16 13:06 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-08-17 18:15 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-17 18:24 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-17 19:29 ` Tony Battersby
2021-08-17 19:59 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-17 21:28 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-17 21:39 ` Tony Battersby
2021-08-17 22:05 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-18 14:37 ` Tony Battersby
2021-08-18 14:46 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-18 2:57 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-18 2:58 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-21 10:08 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-21 16:47 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-21 16:51 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-21 17:21 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-21 9:52 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-08-21 9:48 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-10-22 14:13 ` [RFC] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL Pavel Begunkov
2021-12-24 1:34 ` Olivier Langlois
2021-12-24 10:37 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-12-24 19:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-12-28 11:24 ` Pavel Begunkov
2022-03-14 23:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <[email protected]>
2022-06-01 3:15 ` Jens Axboe
2022-07-20 16:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] coredump: Allow io_uring using apps to dump to pipes Eric W. Biederman
2022-07-20 16:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] signal: Move stopping for the coredump from do_exit into get_signal Eric W. Biederman
2022-07-20 16:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] coredump: Allow coredumps to pipes to work with io_uring Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-22 21:16 ` Olivier Langlois
2022-08-23 3:35 ` Olivier Langlois
2022-08-23 18:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-23 18:27 ` Jens Axboe
2022-08-24 15:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-24 15:51 ` Jens Axboe
2022-01-05 19:39 ` [RFC] coredump: Do not interrupt dump for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL Olivier Langlois
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