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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com,
	rientjes@google.com, willy@infradead.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	guro@fb.com, riel@surriel.com, minchan@kernel.org,
	christian@brauner.io, hch@infradead.org, oleg@redhat.com,
	david@redhat.com, jannh@google.com, shakeelb@google.com,
	timmurray@google.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: introduce process_reap system call
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:46:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg0qa22l.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210623192822.3072029-1-surenb@google.com> (Suren Baghdasaryan's message of "Wed, 23 Jun 2021 12:28:22 -0700")

* Suren Baghdasaryan:

> The API is as follows,
>
>           int process_reap(int pidfd, unsigned int flags);
>
>         DESCRIPTION
>           The process_reap() system call is used to free the memory of a
>           dying process.
>
>           The pidfd selects the process referred to by the PID file
>           descriptor.
>           (See pidofd_open(2) for further information)
>
>           The flags argument is reserved for future use; currently, this
>           argument must be specified as 0.
>
>         RETURN VALUE
>           On success, process_reap() returns 0. On error, -1 is returned
>           and errno is set to indicate the error.

I think the manual page should mention what it means for a process to be
“dying”, and how to move a process to this state.

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-07  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-23 19:28 [PATCH 1/1] mm: introduce process_reap system call Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-06-23 19:34 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-06-29 13:13 ` Christian Brauner
2021-06-29 16:15   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-06-30 18:00 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-06-30 18:43   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-06-30 19:00     ` Shakeel Butt
2021-06-30 19:06       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-06-30 18:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-06-30 18:51   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-06-30 21:45     ` Johannes Weiner
2021-07-01  0:44       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-07-01 22:59         ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-07-02 15:27           ` Christian Brauner
2021-07-05  7:41             ` David Hildenbrand
2021-07-07 12:38               ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-07 21:14                 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-07-09  8:58                   ` Christian Brauner
2021-07-09 20:05                     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-07-01  0:45     ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-07-01 23:08       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-07-07  9:46 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-07-07 21:07   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-07-08  5:40     ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-08  6:05       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-07-08  6:14         ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-08  6:39           ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-07-08  7:13             ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-12 12:51         ` Jan Engelhardt
2021-07-12 18:39           ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-07-12 19:16             ` Jan Engelhardt

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