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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-07-10 22:17:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-07-10 22:17:21 -0700 |
| commit | 5450e8a316a64cddcbc15f90733ebc78aa736545 (patch) | |
| tree | 176eefe81164b86efb8ab2d0dbdea5723d4c06d3 /arch/alpha | |
| parent | 29cd581b59496c26334c910a8b848baa81a6becd (diff) | |
| parent | 172bb24a4f480c180bee646f6616f714ac4bcab2 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner:
"This adds two main features.
- First, it adds polling support for pidfds. This allows process
managers to know when a (non-parent) process dies in a race-free
way.
The notification mechanism used follows the same logic that is
currently used when the parent of a task is notified of a child's
death. With this patchset it is possible to put pidfds in an
{e}poll loop and get reliable notifications for process (i.e.
thread-group) exit.
- The second feature compliments the first one by making it possible
to retrieve pollable pidfds for processes that were not created
using CLONE_PIDFD.
A lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls
such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these
processes a caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This
is a problem for Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service
managers such as systemd.
Both patchsets are accompanied by selftests.
It's perhaps worth noting that the work done so far and the work done
in this branch for pidfd_open() and polling support do already see
some adoption:
- Android is in the process of backporting this work to all their LTS
kernels [1]
- Service managers make use of pidfd_send_signal but will need to
wait until we enable waiting on pidfds for full adoption.
- And projects I maintain make use of both pidfd_send_signal and
CLONE_PIDFD [2] and will use polling support and pidfd_open() too"
[1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.9+backport%22
https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.14+backport%22
https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.19+backport%22
[2] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/aab6e3eb73c343231cdde775db938994fc6f2803/src/lxc/start.c#L1753
* tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
tests: add pidfd_open() tests
arch: wire-up pidfd_open()
pid: add pidfd_open()
pidfd: add polling selftests
pidfd: add polling support
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index 9e7704e44f6d..1db9bbcfb84e 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -473,3 +473,4 @@ 541 common fsconfig sys_fsconfig 542 common fsmount sys_fsmount 543 common fspick sys_fspick +544 common pidfd_open sys_pidfd_open |