07 Sep, 2012

1 commit


17 Jul, 2012

1 commit


29 Sep, 2011

1 commit

  • Add an event to monitor comm value changes of tasks. Such an event
    becomes vital, if someone desires to control threads of a process in
    different manner.

    A natural characteristic of threads is its comm value, and helpfully
    application developers have an opportunity to change it in runtime.
    Reporting about such events via proc connector allows to fine-grain
    monitoring and control potentials, for instance a process control daemon
    listening to proc connector and following comm value policies can place
    specific threads to assigned cgroup partitions.

    It might be possible to achieve a pale partial one-shot likeness without
    this update, if an application changes comm value of a thread generator
    task beforehand, then a new thread is cloned, and after that proc
    connector listener gets the fork event and reads new thread's comm value
    from procfs stat file, but this change visibly simplifies and extends the
    matter.

    Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy
    Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Cc: David Miller
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Vladimir Zapolskiy
     

29 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • proc_fork_connector() uses ->real_parent lockless. This is not safe if
    copy_process() was called with CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_PARENT, in this case
    the parent != current can go away at any moment.

    Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
    Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Oleg Nesterov
     

27 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • This allows us to move duplicated code in
    (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to

    Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma
    Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: David Miller
    Cc: Eric Dumazet
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arun Sharma
     

26 Jul, 2011

1 commit


19 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • This change adds a procfs connector event, which is emitted on every
    successful process tracer attach or detach.

    If some process connects to other one, kernelspace connector reports
    process id and thread group id of both these involved processes. On
    disconnection null process id is returned.

    Such an event allows to create a simple automated userspace mechanism
    to be aware about processes connecting to others, therefore predefined
    process policies can be applied to them if needed.

    Note, a detach signal is emitted only in case, if a tracer process
    explicitly executes PTRACE_DETACH request. In other cases like tracee
    or tracer exit detach event from proc connector is not reported.

    Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy
    Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Cc: David S. Miller
    Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov

    Vladimir Zapolskiy
     

17 Dec, 2010

1 commit

  • The patch was originally in the use cpuops patchset but it needs an
    inc_return and is therefore dependent on an extension of the cpu ops.
    Fixed up and verified that it compiles.

    get_seq can benefit from this_cpu_operations. Address calculation is
    avoided and the increment is done using an xadd.

    Cc: Scott James Remnant
    Cc: Mike Frysinger
    Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

    Christoph Lameter
     

30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

06 Oct, 2009

1 commit

  • Commit 7069331 (connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the
    callback, 2009-10-02) changed callbacks to take two arguments but missed
    this one.

    drivers/connector/cn_proc.c: In function ‘cn_proc_init’:
    drivers/connector/cn_proc.c:263: warning: passing argument 3 of
    ‘cn_add_callback’ from incompatible pointer type

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Boyd
     

23 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • The act of a process becoming a session leader is a useful signal to a
    supervising init daemon such as Upstart.

    While a daemon will normally do this as part of the process of becoming a
    daemon, it is rare for its children to do so. When the children do, it is
    nearly always a sign that the child should be considered detached from the
    parent and not supervised along with it.

    The poster-child example is OpenSSH; the per-login children call setsid()
    so that they may control the pty connected to them. If the primary daemon
    dies or is restarted, we do not want to consider the per-login children
    and want to respawn the primary daemon without killing the children.

    This patch adds a new PROC_SID_EVENT and associated structure to the
    proc_event event_data union, it arranges for this to be emitted when the
    special PIDTYPE_SID pid is set.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant
    Acked-by: Matt Helsley
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov
    Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Acked-by: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Scott James Remnant
     

18 Jul, 2009

1 commit

  • The connector documentation states that the argument to the callback
    function is always a pointer to a struct cn_msg, but rather than encode it
    in the API itself, it uses a void pointer everywhere. This doesn't make
    much sense to encode the pointer in documentation as it prevents proper C
    type checking from occurring and can easily allow people to use the wrong
    pointer type. So convert the argument type to an explicit struct cn_msg
    pointer.

    Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Mike Frysinger
     

14 Nov, 2008

2 commits

  • Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
    This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
    replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
    seeing deallocated memory.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: James Morris
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     
  • Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the
    security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
    pointing to it.

    Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
    entry.S via asm-offsets.

    With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: James Morris
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     

06 Jan, 2007

1 commit

  • On ia64, the various functions that make up cn_proc.c cause kernel
    unaligned access errors.

    If you are using these, for example, to get notification about all tasks
    forking and exiting, you get multiple unaligned access errors per process.

    Use put_unaligned() in the appropriate palces to fix this.

    Signed-off-by: Erik Jacobson
    Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc:
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Erik Jacobson
     

01 Aug, 2006

1 commit

  • Events sent by Process Events Connector from a 64-bit kernel are not binary
    compatible with a 32-bit userspace program because the "timestamp" field
    (struct timespec) is not arch independent. This affects the fields that
    follow "timestamp" as they will be be off by 8 bytes.

    This is a problem for 32-bit userspace programs running with 64-bit kernels
    on ppc64, s390, x86-64.. any "biarch" system.

    Matt had submitted a different solution to lkml as an RFC earlier. We have
    since switched to a solution recommended by Evgeniy Polyakov.

    This patch fixes the problem by changing the timestamp to be a __u64, which
    stores the number of nanoseconds.

    Tested on a x86_64 system with both 32 bit application and 64 bit
    application and on a i386 system.

    Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman
    Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
    Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Chandra Seetharaman
     

23 Jun, 2006

1 commit

  • Move connector header include to precisely where it's needed.

    Remove unused time.h header file as well. This was leftover from previous
    iterations of the process events patches.

    Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
    Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin
    Cc: Nguyen Anh Quynh
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Matt Helsley
     

11 Jan, 2006

1 commit

  • Use ktime_get_ts() to take the timestamp instead of getnstimestamp(). This
    patch prepares to remove getnstimestamp() by switching its only user to a
    different function with almost exactly the same code.

    Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
    Cc: john stultz
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Matt Helsley
     

09 Jan, 2006

1 commit

  • The parameter to put_cpu_var() is unreferenced by the implementation, and
    the compiler doesn't try to comprehend comments, so this wouldn't cause any
    problem, but if bugged me enough to post a fix :-)

    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David S. Miller
     

13 Dec, 2005

1 commit

  • This adds a timestamp field to the events sent via the process event
    connector. The timestamp allows listeners to accurately account the
    duration(s) between a process' events and offers strong means with which
    to determine the order of events with respect to a given task while also
    avoiding the addition of per-task data.

    This alters the size and layout of the event structure and hence would
    break compatibility if process events connector as it stands in 2.6.15-rc2
    were released as a mainline kernel.

    Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Matt Helsley
     

07 Nov, 2005

1 commit

  • This patch adds a connector that reports fork, exec, id change, and exit
    events for all processes to userspace. It replaces the fork_advisor patch
    that ELSA is currently using. Applications that may find these events
    useful include accounting/auditing (e.g. ELSA), system activity monitoring
    (e.g. top), security, and resource management (e.g. CKRM).

    Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Matt Helsley