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    pid: add pidfd_open() · 32fcb426
    Christian Brauner authored
    This adds the pidfd_open() syscall. It allows a caller to retrieve pollable
    pidfds for a process which did not get created via CLONE_PIDFD, i.e. for a
    process that is created via traditional fork()/clone() calls that is only
    referenced by a PID:
    
    int pidfd = pidfd_open(1234, 0);
    ret = pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, SIGSTOP, NULL, 0);
    
    With the introduction of pidfds through CLONE_PIDFD it is possible to
    created pidfds at process creation time.
    However, 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 are examples of tools that want to make use of pidfds to get reliable
    notification of process exit for non-parents (pidfd polling) and race-free
    signal sending (pidfd_send_signal()). They intend to switch to this API for
    process supervision/management as soon as possible. Having no way to get
    pollable pidfds from PID-only processes is one of the biggest blockers for
    them in adopting this api. With pidfd_open() making it possible to retrieve
    pidfds for PID-based processes we enable them to adopt this api.
    
    In line with Arnd's recent changes to consolidate syscall numbers across
    architectures, I have added the pidfd_open() syscall to all architectures
    at the same time.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
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