how does fork() copy threads of a process in multi-processor (SMP)
lalit mohan tripathi
lalit.tripathi at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 10:05:19 EST 2011
I've a general question: In Multiprocessor (Multi-Core) (SMP)
environment how does fork system call (do_fork() related code)
maintain the synchronization in case the threads of a process are
running on different processors? E.g. it can happen that the fork()
is called by cpu-0 thread and other thread of same process is
executing on cpu-1.
I can see that copy of the process is made by do_fork() code in
fork.c. Can anyone give more details how the concurrency issue gets
handled e.g. how PC and Regs are of cpu-1 thread get copied without
any race condition in SMP / multiprocessor system?
Thanks in advance
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