Pull siginfo updates from Eric Biederman:
"I have been slowly sorting out siginfo and this is the culmination of
that work.
The primary result is in several ways the signal infrastructure has
been made less error prone. The code has been updated so that manually
specifying SEND_SIG_FORCED is never necessary. The conversion to the
new siginfo sending functions is now complete, which makes it
difficult to send a signal without filling in the proper siginfo
fields.
At the tail end of the patchset comes the optimization of decreasing
the size of struct siginfo in the kernel from 128 bytes to about 48
bytes on 64bit. The fundamental observation that enables this is by
definition none of the known ways to use struct siginfo uses the extra
bytes.
This comes at the cost of a small user space observable difference.
For the rare case of siginfo being injected into the kernel only what
can be copied into kernel_siginfo is delivered to the destination, the
rest of the bytes are set to 0. For cases where the signal and the
si_code are known this is safe, because we know those bytes are not
used. For cases where the signal and si_code combination is unknown
the bits that won't fit into struct kernel_siginfo are tested to
verify they are zero, and the send fails if they are not.
I made an extensive search through userspace code and I could not find
anything that would break because of the above change. If it turns out
I did break something it will take just the revert of a single change
to restore kernel_siginfo to the same size as userspace siginfo.
Testing did reveal dependencies on preferring the signo passed to
sigqueueinfo over si->signo, so bit the bullet and added the
complexity necessary to handle that case.
Testing also revealed bad things can happen if a negative signal
number is passed into the system calls. Something no sane application
will do but something a malicious program or a fuzzer might do. So I
have fixed the code that performs the bounds checks to ensure negative
signal numbers are handled"
* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (80 commits)
signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user32
signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user
signal: In sigqueueinfo prefer sig not si_signo
signal: Use a smaller struct siginfo in the kernel
signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo
signal: Introduce copy_siginfo_from_user and use it's return value
signal: Remove the need for __ARCH_SI_PREABLE_SIZE and SI_PAD_SIZE
signal: Fail sigqueueinfo if si_signo != sig
signal/sparc: Move EMT_TAGOVF into the generic siginfo.h
signal/unicore32: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/unicore32: Generate siginfo in ucs32_notify_die
signal/unicore32: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/arc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/arc: Push siginfo generation into unhandled_exception
signal/ia64: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/ia64: Use the force_sig(SIGSEGV,...) in ia64_rt_sigreturn
signal/ia64: Use the generic force_sigsegv in setup_frame
signal/arm/kvm: Use send_sig_mceerr
signal/arm: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/arm: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
...
Some of the scheduling tracepoints allow the perf_tp_event
code to write to ring buffer under different cpu than the
code is running on.
This results in corrupted ring buffer data demonstrated in
following perf commands:
# perf record -e 'sched:sched_switch,sched:sched_wakeup' perf bench sched messaging
# Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark:
# 20 sender and receiver processes per group
# 10 groups == 400 processes run
Total time: 0.383 [sec]
[ perf record: Woken up 8 times to write data ]
0x42b890 [0]: failed to process type: -1765585640
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.825 MB perf.data (29669 samples) ]
# perf report --stdio
0x42b890 [0]: failed to process type: -1765585640
The reason for the corruption are some of the scheduling tracepoints,
that have __perf_task dfined and thus allow to store data to another
cpu ring buffer:
sched_waking
sched_wakeup
sched_wakeup_new
sched_stat_wait
sched_stat_sleep
sched_stat_iowait
sched_stat_blocked
The perf_tp_event function first store samples for current cpu
related events defined for tracepoint:
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(event, head, hlist_entry)
perf_swevent_event(event, count, &data, regs);
And then iterates events of the 'task' and store the sample
for any task's event that passes tracepoint checks:
ctx = rcu_dereference(task->perf_event_ctxp[perf_sw_context]);
list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &ctx->event_list, event_entry) {
if (event->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT)
continue;
if (event->attr.config != entry->type)
continue;
perf_swevent_event(event, count, &data, regs);
}
Above code can race with same code running on another cpu,
ending up with 2 cpus trying to store under the same ring
buffer, which is specifically not allowed.
This patch prevents the problem, by allowing only events with the same
current cpu to receive the event.
NOTE: this requires the use of (per-task-)per-cpu buffers for this
feature to work; perf-record does this.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
[peterz: small edits to Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: e6dab5ffab ("perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180923161343.GB15054@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It has been pointed out to me many times that it is useful to be able to
switch off AUX records to save the bandwidth for records that actually
matter, for example, in AUX overwrite mode.
The usefulness of PERF_RECORD_AUX is in some of its flags, like the
TRUNCATED flag that tells the decoder where exactly gaps in the trace
are. The OVERWRITE flag, on the other hand will be set on every single
record in overwrite mode. However, a PERF_RECORD_AUX[flags=OVERWRITE] is
generated on every target task's sched_out, which over time adds up to a
lot of useless information.
If any folks out there have userspace that depends on a constant stream
of OVERWRITE records for a good reason, they'll have to let us know.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404145323.28651-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
For userspace to tell the difference between a random signal and an
exception, the exception must include siginfo information.
Using SEND_SIG_FORCED for SIGILL is thus wrong, and it will result
in userspace seeing si_code == SI_USER (like a random signal) instead
of si_code == SI_KERNEL or a more specific si_code as all exceptions
deliver.
Therefore replace force_sig_info(SIGILL, SEND_SIG_FORCE, current)
with force_sig(SIG_ILL, current) which gets this right and is
shorter and easier to type.
Fixes: 014940bad8 ("uprobes/x86: Send SIGILL if arch_uprobe_post_xol() fails")
Fixes: 0b5256c7f1 ("uprobes: Send SIGILL if handle_trampoline() fails")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
Kernel:
- Modify breakpoint fixes (Jiri Olsa)
perf annotate:
- Fix parsing aarch64 branch instructions after objdump update (Kim Phillips)
- Fix parsing indirect calls in 'perf annotate' (Martin Liška)
perf probe:
- Ignore SyS symbols irrespective of endianness on PowerPC (Sandipan Das)
perf trace:
- Fix include path for asm-generic/unistd.h on arm64 (Kim Phillips)
Core libraries:
- Fix potential null pointer dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx() (Hisao Tanabe)
- Use fixed size string for comms instead of scanf("%m"), that is
not present in the bionic libc and leads to a crash (Chris Phlipot)
- Fix bad memory access in trace info on 32-bit systems, we were reading
8 bytes from a 4-byte long variable when saving the command line in the
perf.data file. (Chris Phlipot)
Build system:
- Streamline bpf examples and headers installation, clarifying
some install messages. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We can safely enable the breakpoint back for both the fail and success
paths by checking only the bp->attr.disabled, which either holds the new
'requested' disabled state or the original breakpoint state.
Committer testing:
At the end of the series, the 'perf test' entry introduced as the first
patch now runs to completion without finding the fixed issues:
# perf test "bp modify"
62: x86 bp modify : Ok
#
In verbose mode:
# perf test -v "bp modify"
62: x86 bp modify :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 5161
rip 5950a0, bp_1 0x5950a0
in bp_1
rip 5950a0, bp_1 0x5950a0
in bp_1
test child finished with 0
---- end ----
x86 bp modify: Ok
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Milind Chabbi <chabbi.milind@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827091228.2878-6-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We need to change the breakpoint even if the attr with new fields has
disabled set to true.
Current code prevents following user code to change the breakpoint
address:
ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, child, offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]), addr_1)
ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, child, offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]), addr_2)
ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, child, offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[7]), dr7)
The first PTRACE_POKEUSER creates the breakpoint with attr.disabled set
to true:
ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(nr = 0)
struct perf_event *bp = t->ptrace_bps[nr];
ptrace_register_breakpoint(..., disabled = true)
ptrace_fill_bp_fields(..., disabled)
register_user_hw_breakpoint
So the second PTRACE_POKEUSER will be omitted:
ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(nr = 0)
struct perf_event *bp = t->ptrace_bps[nr];
struct perf_event_attr attr = bp->attr;
modify_user_hw_breakpoint(bp, &attr)
if (!attr->disabled)
modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check
Reported-by: Milind Chabbi <chabbi.milind@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827091228.2878-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull core signal handling updates from Eric Biederman:
"It was observed that a periodic timer in combination with a
sufficiently expensive fork could prevent fork from every completing.
This contains the changes to remove the need for that restart.
This set of changes is split into several parts:
- The first part makes PIDTYPE_TGID a proper pid type instead
something only for very special cases. The part starts using
PIDTYPE_TGID enough so that in __send_signal where signals are
actually delivered we know if the signal is being sent to a a group
of processes or just a single process.
- With that prep work out of the way the logic in fork is modified so
that fork logically makes signals received while it is running
appear to be received after the fork completes"
* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (22 commits)
signal: Don't send signals to tasks that don't exist
signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
fork: Have new threads join on-going signal group stops
fork: Skip setting TIF_SIGPENDING in ptrace_init_task
signal: Add calculate_sigpending()
fork: Unconditionally exit if a fatal signal is pending
fork: Move and describe why the code examines PIDNS_ADDING
signal: Push pid type down into complete_signal.
signal: Push pid type down into __send_signal
signal: Push pid type down into send_signal
signal: Pass pid type into do_send_sig_info
signal: Pass pid type into send_sigio_to_task & send_sigurg_to_task
signal: Pass pid type into group_send_sig_info
signal: Pass pid and pid type into send_sigqueue
posix-timers: Noralize good_sigevent
signal: Use PIDTYPE_TGID to clearly store where file signals will be sent
pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID
pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct
kvm: Don't open code task_pid in kvm_vcpu_ioctl
pids: Compute task_tgid using signal->leader_pid
...
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Restructure of lockdep and latency tracers
This is the biggest change. Joel Fernandes restructured the hooks
from irqs and preemption disabling and enabling. He got rid of a lot
of the preprocessor #ifdef mess that they caused.
He turned both lockdep and the latency tracers to use trace events
inserted in the preempt/irqs disabling paths. But unfortunately,
these started to cause issues in corner cases. Thus, parts of the
code was reverted back to where lockdep and the latency tracers just
get called directly (without using the trace events). But because the
original change cleaned up the code very nicely we kept that, as well
as the trace events for preempt and irqs disabling, but they are
limited to not being called in NMIs.
- Have trace events use SRCU for "rcu idle" calls. This was required
for the preempt/irqs off trace events. But it also had to not allow
them to be called in NMI context. Waiting till Paul makes an NMI safe
SRCU API.
- New notrace SRCU API to allow trace events to use SRCU.
- Addition of mcount-nop option support
- SPDX headers replacing GPL templates.
- Various other fixes and clean ups.
- Some fixes are marked for stable, but were not fully tested before
the merge window opened.
* tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments
tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files
tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c
blktrace: Add SPDX License format header
s390/ftrace: Add -mfentry and -mnop-mcount support
tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support
tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile
tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately
Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode()
Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body
tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized
uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
tracing: Fix synchronizing to event changes with tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
ftrace: Remove unused pointer ftrace_swapper_pid
tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs
tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable
trace: Use rcu_dereference_raw for hooks from trace-event subsystem
tracing/kprobes: Fix within_notrace_func() to check only notrace functions
...
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"A bunch of good stuff in here. Worth noting is that we've pulled in
the x86/mm branch from -tip so that we can make use of the core
ioremap changes which allow us to put down huge mappings in the
vmalloc area without screwing up the TLB. Much of the positive
diffstat is because of the rseq selftest for arm64.
Summary:
- Wire up support for qspinlock, replacing our trusty ticket lock
code
- Add an IPI to flush_icache_range() to ensure that stale
instructions fetched into the pipeline are discarded along with the
I-cache lines
- Support for the GCC "stackleak" plugin
- Support for restartable sequences, plus an arm64 port for the
selftest
- Kexec/kdump support on systems booting with ACPI
- Rewrite of our syscall entry code in C, which allows us to zero the
GPRs on entry from userspace
- Support for chained PMU counters, allowing 64-bit event counters to
be constructed on current CPUs
- Ensure scheduler topology information is kept up-to-date with CPU
hotplug events
- Re-enable support for huge vmalloc/IO mappings now that the core
code has the correct hooks to use break-before-make sequences
- Miscellaneous, non-critical fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (90 commits)
arm64: alternative: Use true and false for boolean values
arm64: kexec: Add comment to explain use of __flush_icache_range()
arm64: sdei: Mark sdei stack helper functions as static
arm64, kaslr: export offset in VMCOREINFO ELF notes
arm64: perf: Add cap_user_time aarch64
efi/libstub: Only disable stackleak plugin for arm64
arm64: drop unused kernel_neon_begin_partial() macro
arm64: kexec: machine_kexec should call __flush_icache_range
arm64: svc: Ensure hardirq tracing is updated before return
arm64: mm: Export __sync_icache_dcache() for xen-privcmd
drivers/perf: arm-ccn: Use devm_ioremap_resource() to map memory
arm64: Add support for STACKLEAK gcc plugin
arm64: Add stack information to on_accessible_stack
drivers/perf: hisi: update the sccl_id/ccl_id when MT is supported
arm64: fix ACPI dependencies
rseq/selftests: Add support for arm64
arm64: acpi: fix alignment fault in accessing ACPI
efi/arm: map UEFI memory map even w/o runtime services enabled
efi/arm: preserve early mapping of UEFI memory map longer for BGRT
drivers: acpi: add dependency of EFI for arm64
...
It is useful to get the running time of a thread. Doing so in an
efficient manner can be important for performance of user applications.
Avoiding system calls in `clock_gettime` when handling
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID is important. Other clocks are handled in the
VDSO, but CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID falls back on the system call.
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID is not handled in the VDSO since it would have
costs associated with maintaining updated user space accessible time
offsets. These offsets have to be updated everytime the a thread is
scheduled/descheduled. However, for programs regularly checking the
running time of a thread, this is a performance improvement.
This patch takes a middle ground, and adds support for cap_user_time an
optional feature of the perf_event API. This way costs are only
incurred when the perf_event api is enabled. This is done the same way
as it is in x86.
Ultimately this allows calculating the thread running time in userspace
on aarch64 as follows (adapted from perf_event_open manpage):
u32 seq, time_mult, time_shift;
u64 running, count, time_offset, quot, rem, delta;
struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc;
pc = buf; // buf is the perf event mmaped page as documented in the API.
if (pc->cap_usr_time) {
do {
seq = pc->lock;
barrier();
running = pc->time_running;
count = readCNTVCT_EL0(); // Read ARM hardware clock.
time_offset = pc->time_offset;
time_mult = pc->time_mult;
time_shift = pc->time_shift;
barrier();
} while (pc->lock != seq);
quot = (count >> time_shift);
rem = count & (((u64)1 << time_shift) - 1);
delta = time_offset + quot * time_mult +
((rem * time_mult) >> time_shift);
running += delta;
// running now has the current nanosecond level thread time.
}
Summary of changes in the patch:
For aarch64 systems, make arch_perf_update_userpage update the timing
information stored in the perf_event page. Requiring the following
calculations:
- Calculate the appropriate time_mult, and time_shift factors to convert
ticks to nano seconds for the current clock frequency.
- Adjust the mult and shift factors to avoid shift factors of 32 bits.
(possibly unnecessary)
- The time_offset userspace should apply when doing calculations:
negative the current sched time (now), because time_running and
time_enabled fields of the perf_event page have just been updated.
Toggle bits to appropriate values:
- Enable cap_user_time
Signed-off-by: Michael O'Farrell <micpof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
In function perf_event_parse_addr_filter(), the path::dentry of each struct
perf_addr_filter is left unassigned (as it should be) when the pattern
being parsed is related to kernel space. But in function
perf_addr_filter_match() the same dentries are given to d_inode() where
the value is not expected to be NULL, resulting in the following splat:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000058
pc : perf_event_mmap+0x2fc/0x5a0
lr : perf_event_mmap+0x2c8/0x5a0
Process uname (pid: 2860, stack limit = 0x000000001cbcca37)
Call trace:
perf_event_mmap+0x2fc/0x5a0
mmap_region+0x124/0x570
do_mmap+0x344/0x4f8
vm_mmap_pgoff+0xe4/0x110
vm_mmap+0x2c/0x40
elf_map+0x60/0x108
load_elf_binary+0x450/0x12c4
search_binary_handler+0x90/0x290
__do_execve_file.isra.13+0x6e4/0x858
sys_execve+0x3c/0x50
el0_svc_naked+0x30/0x34
This patch is fixing the problem by introducing a new check in function
perf_addr_filter_match() to see if the filter's dentry is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: songliubraving@fb.com
Fixes: 9511bce9fe ("perf/core: Fix bad use of igrab()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531782831-1186-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Vince reported the perf_fuzzer giving various unwinder warnings and
Josh reported:
> Deja vu. Most of these are related to perf PEBS, similar to the
> following issue:
>
> b8000586c9 ("perf/x86/intel: Cure bogus unwind from PEBS entries")
>
> This is basically the ORC version of that. setup_pebs_sample_data() is
> assembling a franken-pt_regs which ORC isn't happy about. RIP is
> inconsistent with some of the other registers (like RSP and RBP).
And where the previous unwinder only needed BP,SP ORC also requires
IP. But we cannot spoof IP because then the sample will get displaced,
entirely negating the point of PEBS.
So cure the whole thing differently by doing the unwind early; this
does however require a means to communicate we did the unwind early.
We (ab)use an unused sample_type bit for this, which we set on events
that fill out the data->callchain before the normal
perf_prepare_sample().
Debugged-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Everywhere except in the pid array we distinguish between a tasks pid and
a tasks tgid (thread group id). Even in the enumeration we want that
distinction sometimes so we have added __PIDTYPE_TGID. With leader_pid
we almost have an implementation of PIDTYPE_TGID in struct signal_struct.
Add PIDTYPE_TGID as a first class member of the pid_type enumeration and
into the pids array. Then remove the __PIDTYPE_TGID special case and the
leader_pid in signal_struct.
The net size increase is just an extra pointer added to struct pid and
an extra pair of pointers of an hlist_node added to task_struct.
The effect on code maintenance is the removal of a number of special
cases today and the potential to remove many more special cases as
PIDTYPE_TGID gets used to it's fullest. The long term potential
is allowing zombie thread group leaders to exit, which will remove
a lot more special cases in the code.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
