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| author | Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> | 2012-05-31 16:26:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-31 17:49:32 -0700 |
| commit | d97b46a64674a267bc41c9e16132ee2a98c3347d (patch) | |
| tree | 316f77d212c84aef226684eb05d5d33f40743ac9 /include/linux | |
| parent | 818411616baf46ceba0cff6f05af3a9b294734f7 (diff) | |
syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall
While doing the checkpoint-restore in the user space one need to determine
whether various kernel objects (like mm_struct-s of file_struct-s) are
shared between tasks and restore this state.
The 2nd step can be solved by using appropriate CLONE_ flags and the
unshare syscall, while there's currently no ways for solving the 1st one.
One of the ways for checking whether two tasks share e.g. mm_struct is to
provide some mm_struct ID of a task to its proc file, but showing such
info considered to be not that good for security reasons.
Thus after some debates we end up in conclusion that using that named
'comparison' syscall might be the best candidate. So here is it --
__NR_kcmp.
It takes up to 5 arguments - the pids of the two tasks (which
characteristics should be compared), the comparison type and (in case of
comparison of files) two file descriptors.
Lookups for pids are done in the caller's PID namespace only.
At moment only x86 is supported and tested.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up selftests, warnings]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include errno.h]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kcmp.h | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kcmp.h b/include/linux/kcmp.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2dcd1b3aafc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/kcmp.h @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +#ifndef _LINUX_KCMP_H +#define _LINUX_KCMP_H + +/* Comparison type */ +enum kcmp_type { + KCMP_FILE, + KCMP_VM, + KCMP_FILES, + KCMP_FS, + KCMP_SIGHAND, + KCMP_IO, + KCMP_SYSVSEM, + + KCMP_TYPES, +}; + +#endif /* _LINUX_KCMP_H */ diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h index 3de3acb84a95..19439c75c5b2 100644 --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -858,4 +858,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_process_vm_writev(pid_t pid, unsigned long riovcnt, unsigned long flags); +asmlinkage long sys_kcmp(pid_t pid1, pid_t pid2, int type, + unsigned long idx1, unsigned long idx2); #endif |