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Eric W. Biederman 088fe47ce9 signal: Add calculate_sigpending()
Add a function calculate_sigpending to test to see if any signals are
pending for a new task immediately following fork.  Signals have to
happen either before or after fork.  Today our practice is to push
all of the signals to before the fork, but that has the downside that
frequent or periodic signals can make fork take much much longer than
normal or prevent fork from completing entirely.

So we need move signals that we can after the fork to prevent that.

This updates the code to set TIF_SIGPENDING on a new task if there
are signals or other activities that have moved so that they appear
to happen after the fork.

As the code today restarts if it sees any such activity this won't
immediately have an effect, as there will be no reason for it
to set TIF_SIGPENDING immediately after the fork.

Adding calculate_sigpending means the code in fork can safely be
changed to not always restart if a signal is pending.

The new calculate_sigpending function sets sigpending if there
are pending bits in jobctl, pending signals, the freezer needs
to freeze the new task or the live kernel patching framework
need the new thread to take the slow path to userspace.

I have verified that setting TIF_SIGPENDING does make a new process
take the slow path to userspace before it executes it's first userspace
instruction.

I have looked at the callers of signal_wake_up and the code paths
setting TIF_SIGPENDING and I don't see anything else that needs to be
handled.  The code probably doesn't need to set TIF_SIGPENDING for the
kernel live patching as it uses a separate thread flag as well.  But
at this point it seems safer reuse the recalc_sigpending logic and get
the kernel live patching folks to sort out their story later.

V2: I have moved the test into schedule_tail where siglock can
    be grabbed and recalc_sigpending can be reused directly.
    Further as the last action of setting up a new task this
    guarantees that TIF_SIGPENDING will be properly set in the
    new process.

    The helper calculate_sigpending takes the siglock and
    uncontitionally sets TIF_SIGPENDING and let's recalc_sigpending
    clear TIF_SIGPENDING if it is unnecessary.  This allows reusing
    the existing code and keeps maintenance of the conditions simple.

    Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>  suggested the movement
    and pointed out the need to take siglock if this code
    was going to be called while the new task is discoverable.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-08-03 20:10:31 -05:00
arch pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID 2018-07-21 10:43:12 -05:00
block for-linus-20180616 2018-06-17 05:37:55 +09:00
certs docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
crypto docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
Documentation for-linus-20180616 2018-06-17 05:37:55 +09:00
drivers signal: Pass pid type into do_send_sig_info 2018-07-21 12:57:35 -05:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs signal: Pass pid type into send_sigio_to_task & send_sigurg_to_task 2018-07-21 12:57:41 -05:00
include signal: Add calculate_sigpending() 2018-08-03 20:10:31 -05:00
init pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID 2018-07-21 10:43:12 -05:00
ipc ipc: use new return type vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
kernel signal: Add calculate_sigpending() 2018-08-03 20:10:31 -05:00
lib docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
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Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Solve a series of broken links for files under Documentation: 2018-06-17 05:25:18 +09:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc1 2018-06-17 08:04:49 +09:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.