I'm pretty sure we name all the threads we can (or at least used to), I *think* the problem is worker threads in a thread pool, which are started up and shut down automatically, and aren't named (and don't have message loops).
When I was doing the work to generate the internal page about:tasks, it was critical to have names on all the threads (that I could), as the data also shows what threads sent and received tasks. Jim On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Berend-Jan Wever <skyli...@chromium.org>wrote: > If you do not care about the way threads are run inside a process in > Chromium, you can stop reading now. > > Some of our threads are named, while others are not. See below cdb.exe > output for a renderer process: > > 2:020:x86> ~ > 1 Id: d98.1588 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7efd8000 Unfrozen "Chrome_ChildIOThread" > . 20 Id: d98.1440 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7efdb000 Unfrozen "Main Thread" > 21 Id: d98.10d4 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ef4d000 Unfrozen > 22 Id: d98.171c Suspend: 1 Teb: 7efd5000 Unfrozen > 2:020:x86> ~21 s > ntdll32!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects+0x15: > 76fa99fd c21400 ret 14h > 2:021:x86> kp > ChildEBP RetAddr > 0399fcd4 7702787d ntdll32!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects+0x15 > 0399fe68 750feccb ntdll32!TppWaiterpThread+0x328 > 0399fe74 76fdd24d kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xe > 0399feb4 76fdd45f ntdll32!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x23 > 0399fecc 00000000 ntdll32!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x1b > 2:021:x86> ~22 s > ntdll32!NtWaitForWorkViaWorkerFactory+0x12: > 76fab5ee c20800 ret 8 > 2:022:x86> kp > ChildEBP RetAddr > 0357f6ec 76f9b927 ntdll32!NtWaitForWorkViaWorkerFactory+0x12 > 0357f81c 750feccb ntdll32!TppWorkerThread+0x1f6 > 0357f828 76fdd24d kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xe > 0357f868 76fdd45f ntdll32!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x23 > 0357f880 00000000 ntdll32!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x1b > > What are these threads and why are they nameless? Did we create these > threads at all? (They could have been created by plugins/detours/etc. that > we have no control over.) > It would be nice if we could name all threads, so you know what you're > looking at. > > Thanks! > BJ > > Berend-Jan "SkyLined" Wever <skyli...@google.com> > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
