On 3/25/21 1:38 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:34 PM Eric W. Biederman > <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> A quick skim shows that these threads are not showing up anywhere in >> proc which appears to be a problem, as it hides them from top. >> >> Sysadmins need the ability to dig into a system and find out where all >> their cpu usage or io's have gone when there is a problem. I general I >> think this argues that these threads should show up as threads of the >> process so I am not even certain this is the right fix to deal with gdb. > > Yeah, I do think that hiding them is the wrong model, because it also > hides them from "ps" etc, which is very wrong. Totally agree. > I don't know what the gdb logic is, but maybe there's some other > option that makes gdb not react to them? Guess it's time to dig out the gdb source... I'll take a look. -- Jens Axboe
