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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>,
	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] pidfd: support PIDFD_NONBLOCK in pidfd_open()
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 16:50:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903235024.GA210207@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200902102130.147672-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 12:21:27PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Introduce PIDFD_NONBLOCK to support non-blocking pidfd file descriptors.
> 
> Ever since the introduction of pidfds and more advanced async io various
> programming languages such as Rust have grown support for async event
> libraries. These libraries are created to help build epoll-based event loops
> around file descriptors. A common pattern is to automatically make all file
> descriptors they manage to O_NONBLOCK.
> 
> For such libraries the EAGAIN error code is treated specially. When a function
> is called that returns EAGAIN the function isn't called again until the event
> loop indicates the the file descriptor is ready. Supporting EAGAIN when
> waiting on pidfds makes such libraries just work with little effort. In the
> following patch we will extend waitid() internally to support non-blocking
> pidfds.
> 
> This introduces a new flag PIDFD_NONBLOCK that is equivalent to O_NONBLOCK.
> This follows the same patterns we have for other (anon inode) file descriptors
> such as EFD_NONBLOCK, IN_NONBLOCK, SFD_NONBLOCK, TFD_NONBLOCK and the same for
> close-on-exec flags.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200811181236.GA18763@localhost/
> Link: https://github.com/joshtriplett/async-pidfd
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-03 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-02 10:21 [PATCH v2 0/4] Support non-blocking pidfds Christian Brauner
2020-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] pidfd: support PIDFD_NONBLOCK in pidfd_open() Christian Brauner
2020-09-03 14:31   ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-03 14:58   ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-03 15:25     ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-03 23:50   ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2020-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] exit: support non-blocking pidfds Christian Brauner
2020-09-03 14:22   ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-03 15:38     ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-03 23:54       ` Josh Triplett
2020-09-03 23:56   ` Josh Triplett
2020-09-04 10:29     ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] tests: port pidfd_wait to kselftest harness Christian Brauner
2020-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] tests: add waitid() tests for non-blocking pidfds Christian Brauner
2020-09-03 23:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Support " Josh Triplett
2020-09-04 10:30   ` Christian Brauner

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