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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-09-16 09:28:19 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-09-16 09:28:19 -0700 |
commit | c17112a5c413f20188da276c138484e7127cdc84 (patch) | |
tree | 9fb0607a64e4dd49bbf405ed456221640fa972d8 /include/uapi | |
parent | 4d856f72c10ecb060868ed10ff1b1453943fc6c8 (diff) | |
parent | 821cc7b0b205c0df64cce59aacc330af251fa8f7 (diff) | |
download | linux-c17112a5c413f20188da276c138484e7127cdc84.tar.bz2 |
Merge tag 'core-process-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd/waitid updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains two features and various tests.
First, it adds support for waiting on process through pidfds by adding
the P_PIDFD type to the waitid() syscall. This completes the basic
functionality of the pidfd api (cf. [1]). In the meantime we also have
a new adition to the userspace projects that make use of the pidfd
api. The qt project was nice enough to send a mail pointing out that
they have a pr up to switch to the pidfd api (cf. [2]).
Second, this tag contains an extension to the waitid() syscall to make
it possible to wait on the current process group in a race free manner
(even though the actual problem is very unlikely) by specifing 0
together with the P_PGID type. This extension traces back to a
discussion on the glibc development mailing list.
There are also a range of tests for the features above. Additionally,
the test-suite which detected the pidfd-polling race we fixed in [3]
is included in this tag"
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/794707/
[2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/108456
[3] commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
* tag 'core-process-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
waitid: Add support for waiting for the current process group
tests: add pidfd poll tests
tests: move common definitions and functions into pidfd.h
pidfd: add pidfd_wait tests
pidfd: add P_PIDFD to waitid()
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/wait.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/wait.h b/include/uapi/linux/wait.h index ac49a220cf2a..85b809fc9f11 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/wait.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/wait.h @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #define P_ALL 0 #define P_PID 1 #define P_PGID 2 +#define P_PIDFD 3 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_WAIT_H */ |