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fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry

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When we do checkpoint of a task we need to know the list of children the
task, has but there is no easy and fast way to generate reverse
parent->children chain from arbitrary <pid> (while a parent pid is
provided in "PPid" field of /proc/<pid>/status).

So instead of walking over all pids in the system (creating one big
process tree in memory, just to figure out which children a task has) --
we add explicit /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry, because the kernel
already has this kind of information but it is not yet exported.

This is a first level children, not the whole process tree.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-05-31 16:26:43 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 98ed57eef9
commit 818411616b
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Table of Contents
3.4 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings
3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm
3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children
4 Configuring procfs
4.1 Mount options
@@ -1578,6 +1579,23 @@ then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated
comm value.
3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children
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This file provides a fast way to retrieve first level children pids
of a task pointed by <pid>/<tid> pair. The format is a space separated
stream of pids.
Note the "first level" here -- if a child has own children they will
not be listed here, one needs to read /proc/<children-pid>/task/<tid>/children
to obtain the descendants.
Since this interface is intended to be fast and cheap it doesn't
guarantee to provide precise results and some children might be
skipped, especially if they've exited right after we printed their
pids, so one need to either stop or freeze processes being inspected
if precise results are needed.
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Configuring procfs
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