Hello, I'm trying to create a kernel level mechanism that freezes processes. So far I've been successful in doing so in some cases but whenever I have a process running in kernel mode, this mechanism fails.
More precisely I have an Android app that launches two java.lang.Process instances where each of which issue a shell ping command. At this point I can see that the app and both processes are in the sleeping state (S), meaning that their processes are in kernel mode, and waiting for some syscall to terminate (possibly recvmsg or sendmsg). In the kernel, I send a signal (SIGSTOP) to one of the ping processes to freeze it. I then check the state of the process and I can see that it actually transitioned from the sleeping to the stopped state (T). However, when I use strace on that ping process, it shows continuous socket activity, which means that despite the state of the process, the signal had no effect on the ping process's kernel level execution. I would like to know if anyone can help me answer two questions: Is this behavior normal? Is there a way to freeze kernel level execution such as a system call? Linux kernel: goldfish 3.4 Android: KitKat 4.4 r1.2 Thank you very much in advance Best Regards Nuno Duarte -- -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Linux Kernel Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
