[LTP] [PATCH] memcg/functional: check several times if the process is killed

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Tue May 24 12:15:28 CEST 2016


Hi!
> > We should better change this for something more robust. Given that the
> > memgc_progcess does while (!flag_exit) sleep(1); in the main loop we may
> > as well wait till the process gets into the sleep state.
> >
> 
> I don't understand why it's more robust. For example, a process can get 
> into the sleep state (interruptible sleep) due to a call to a syscall, no?

Generally yes, but in this case it's unlikely that opening /dev/zero or
calling sigaction() would block.

> So maybe keep this sleep() as is?

I'm Ok with that one as well. But we should rethink and fix it later.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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