Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: introduce process_reap system call

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: introduce process_reap system call
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 14:51:54 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <q2s48op3-n660-p8r4-op50-po43r2249r24@vanv.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJuCfpFt55Dw1uW3S6_AincNfPaAtwdi6iXYVvFr7x3fvt4uzw@mail.gmail.com>


On Thursday 2021-07-08 08:05, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
>>
>> That explains very clearly the requirement, but it raises the question
>> why this isn't an si_code flag for rt_sigqueueinfo, reusing the existing
>> system call.
>
>I think you are suggesting to use sigqueue() to deliver the signal and
>perform the reaping when a special value accompanies it. This would be
>somewhat similar to my early suggestion to use a flag in
>pidfd_send_signal() (see:
>https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1060407) to implement memory
>reaping which has another advantage of operation on PIDFDs instead of
>PIDs which can be recycled.
>kill()/pidfd_send_signal()/sigqueue() are supposed to deliver the
>signal and return without blocking. Changing that behavior was
>considered unacceptable in these discussions.

The way I understood the request is that a userspace program (or perhaps two,
if so desired) should issue _two_ calls, one to deliver the signal,
one to perform the reap portion:

	uinfo.si_code = SI_QUEUE;
	sigqueue(pid, SIGKILL, &uinfo);
	uinfo.si_code = SI_REAP;
	sigqueue(pid, SIGKILL, &uinfo);