Lennart Poettering
ebec18a6d3
prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision
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Userspace service managers/supervisors need to track their started
services. Many services daemonize by double-forking and get implicitly
re-parented to PID 1. The service manager will no longer be able to
receive the SIGCHLD signals for them, and is no longer in charge of
reaping the children with wait(). All information about the children is
lost at the moment PID 1 cleans up the re-parented processes.
With this prctl, a service manager process can mark itself as a sort of
'sub-init', able to stay as the parent for all orphaned processes
created by the started services. All SIGCHLD signals will be delivered
to the service manager.
Receiving SIGCHLD and doing wait() is in cases of a service-manager much
preferred over any possible asynchronous notification about specific
PIDs, because the service manager has full access to the child process
data in /proc and the PID can not be re-used until the wait(), the
service-manager itself is in charge of, has happened.
As a side effect, the relevant parent PID information does not get lost
by a double-fork, which results in a more elaborate process tree and
'ps' output:
before:
# ps afx
253 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork
294 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd
328 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/modem-manager
608 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/colord
658 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/upowerd
819 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/imsettings-daemon
916 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
917 ? S 0:00 \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices
after:
# ps afx
294 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork
426 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd
449 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/modem-manager
635 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/colord
705 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/upowerd
959 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
960 ? S 0:00 | \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices
977 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/packagekitd
This prctl is orthogonal to PID namespaces. PID namespaces are isolated
from each other, while a service management process usually requires the
services to live in the same namespace, to be able to talk to each
other.
Users of this will be the systemd per-user instance, which provides
init-like functionality for the user's login session and D-Bus, which
activates bus services on-demand. Both need init-like capabilities to
be able to properly keep track of the services they start.
Many thanks to Oleg for several rounds of review and insights.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout and spelling]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add lengthy code comment from Oleg]
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:32 -07:00
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debug
Fixes:
2012-03-23 09:29:44 -07:00
events
Merge branch 'for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
2012-03-20 18:11:21 -07:00
gcov
gcov: disable CONSTRUCTORS for UML
2011-07-26 16:49:45 -07:00
irq
Generialize powerpc's irq_host as irq_domain
2012-03-21 10:27:19 -07:00
power
Power management updates for 3.4
2012-03-21 10:15:51 -07:00
sched
Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
2012-03-21 13:25:04 -07:00
time
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
2012-03-22 20:20:18 -07:00
trace
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
2012-03-21 13:36:41 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c
Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
2012-01-08 12:19:57 -08:00
async.c
kernel/async: remove redundant declaration.
2012-01-13 09:32:18 +10:30
audit.c
constify path argument of audit_log_d_path()
2012-03-20 21:29:40 -04:00
audit.h
audit: remove AUDIT_SETUP_CONTEXT as it isn't used
2012-01-17 16:16:57 -05:00
audit_tree.c
audit_tree,rcu: Convert call_rcu(__put_tree) to kfree_rcu()
2011-07-20 14:10:11 -07:00
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules
2012-01-17 16:17:01 -05:00
auditsc.c
kernel-doc: fix new warnings in auditsc.c
2012-01-23 08:44:53 -08:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
Revert "capabitlies: ns_capable can use the cap helpers rather than lsm call"
2012-01-17 10:19:41 -08:00
cgroup.c
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
2012-03-22 09:04:48 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c
cgroup: remove cgroup_subsys argument from callbacks
2012-02-02 09:20:22 -08:00
compat.c
kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure
2011-10-31 19:30:05 -04:00
configs.c
kernel/configs.c: include MODULE_*() when CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=n
2011-07-25 20:57:15 -07:00
cpu.c
Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
2012-01-08 13:10:57 -08:00
cpu_pm.c
cpu_pm: call notifiers during suspend
2011-09-23 12:05:29 +05:30
cpuset.c
cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3
2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
crash_dump.c
Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
cred.c
security: trim security.h
2012-02-14 10:45:42 +11:00
delayacct.c
KVM: Steal time implementation
2011-07-14 12:59:14 +03:00
dma.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c
prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision
2012-03-23 16:58:32 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c
prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision
2012-03-23 16:58:32 -07:00
freezer.c
PM / Freezer: Remove references to TIF_FREEZE in comments
2012-03-04 23:08:54 +01:00
futex.c
Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2012-03-19 17:11:15 -07:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
hrtimer.c
Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2011-11-28 08:43:52 -08:00
hung_task.c
hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logic
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
irq_work.c
kernel: fix two implicit header assumptions in irq_work.c
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
itimer.c
[S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
2011-12-15 14:56:19 +01:00
jump_label.c
static keys: Inline the static_key_enabled() function
2012-02-28 20:01:08 +01:00
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
PM / Sleep: Introduce "late suspend" and "early resume" of devices
2012-01-29 20:38:29 +01:00
kfifo.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
kmod.c
Merge branch 'pm-sleep' into pm-for-linus
2011-12-25 23:42:20 +01:00
kprobes.c
kprobes: return proper error code from register_kprobe()
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
ksysfs.c
kernel: ksysfs.c is implicitly using stat.h
2011-10-31 09:20:13 -04:00
kthread.c
freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal()
2011-11-23 09:28:17 -08:00
latencytop.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
lockdep.c
lockdep: Add CPU-idle/offline warning to lockdep-RCU splat
2012-02-21 09:06:06 -08:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
lockdep_states.h
Makefile
PM: Make sysrq-o be available for CONFIG_PM unset
2012-01-14 00:33:03 +01:00
module.c
error: implicit declaration of function 'module_flags_taint'
2012-01-15 16:21:07 -08:00
mutex-debug.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
2012-03-01 10:28:03 +01:00
mutex.h
notifier.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
nsproxy.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
padata.c
padata: Fix race on sequence number wrap
2012-03-14 17:25:56 +08:00
panic.c
panic: don't print redundant backtraces on oops
2012-01-12 20:13:11 -08:00
params.c
module: make module param bint handle nul value
2012-02-14 11:02:15 +10:30
pid.c
vfs: fix panic in __d_lookup() with high dentry hashtable counts
2012-02-13 20:45:38 -05:00
pid_namespace.c
sysctl: add the kernel.ns_last_pid control
2012-01-12 20:13:11 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c
[S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
2011-12-15 14:56:19 +01:00
posix-timers.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
printk.c
Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2012-03-20 10:31:44 -07:00
profile.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
ptrace.c
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security
2012-01-14 18:36:33 -08:00
range.c
range: fix bogus misuse of module.h to get printk()
2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
rcu.h
rcu: Allow nesting of rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit()
2012-02-21 09:06:12 -08:00
rcupdate.c
rcu: Check for illegal use of RCU from offlined CPUs
2012-02-21 09:06:03 -08:00
rcutiny.c
rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections
2012-02-21 09:06:13 -08:00
rcutiny_plugin.h
rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
2012-02-21 09:03:43 -08:00
rcutorture.c
PTR_ERR should be called before its argument is cleared.
2012-02-21 09:06:10 -08:00
rcutree.c
rcu: Stop spurious warnings from synchronize_sched_expedited
2012-02-21 15:33:34 -08:00
rcutree.h
rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs
2012-02-21 09:06:07 -08:00
rcutree_plugin.h
rcu: Hold off RCU_FAST_NO_HZ after timer posted
2012-02-21 09:42:30 -08:00
rcutree_trace.c
rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs
2012-02-21 09:06:07 -08:00
relay.c
relay: prevent integer overflow in relay_open()
2012-02-10 09:04:49 +01:00
res_counter.c
net: introduce res_counter_charge_nofail() for socket allocations
2012-01-22 15:08:46 -05:00
resource.c
kernel/resource.c: move EXPORT_SYMBOL right after definition
2012-02-03 23:37:07 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.c
lockdep, rtmutex, bug: Show taint flags on error
2011-12-06 08:16:49 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex-tester: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
2011-12-14 14:54:22 -08:00
rtmutex.c
Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled"
2011-12-11 10:33:18 -08:00
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
seccomp.c
seccomp: audit abnormal end to a process due to seccomp
2012-01-17 16:16:55 -05:00
semaphore.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
signal.c
exit_signal: fix the "parent has changed security domain" logic
2012-03-20 14:16:50 -07:00
smp.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
softirq.c
Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2012-03-20 10:32:09 -07:00
spinlock.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
srcu.c
rcu: Call out dangers of expedited RCU primitives
2012-02-21 09:06:08 -08:00
stacktrace.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
stop_machine.c
Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
sys.c
prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision
2012-03-23 16:58:32 -07:00
sys_ni.c
Cross Memory Attach
2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
sysctl.c
security: trim security.h
2012-02-14 10:45:42 +11:00
sysctl_binary.c
binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak
2011-12-20 10:25:04 -08:00
sysctl_check.c
xfs: remove subdirectories
2011-08-12 16:21:35 -05:00
taskstats.c
Make TASKSTATS require root access
2011-09-19 17:04:37 -07:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c
Merge branch 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2012-01-06 07:53:34 -08:00
tracepoint.c
static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and static_key_slow_[inc|dec]()
2012-02-24 10:05:59 +01:00
tsacct.c
[S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
2011-12-15 14:56:19 +01:00
uid16.c
up.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
user-return-notifier.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
user.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
user_namespace.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
utsname.c
kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
utsname_sysctl.c
Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
wait.c
lockdep/waitqueues: Add better annotation
2011-12-21 10:07:39 +01:00
watchdog.c
watchdog: Fix code/comments mismatches
2012-02-11 15:11:33 +01:00
workqueue.c
Merge branch 'for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
2012-03-20 18:13:22 -07:00
workqueue_sched.h