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authorVladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@gmail.com>2011-09-21 05:26:44 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-09-28 13:41:50 -0400
commitf786ecba4158880f8cdc0ebb93e7d78e6c125449 (patch)
tree0291e9079912f41ad2dd67ffd609a554e98b7850 /kernel/sys.c
parent5dd17e08f333cde0fa11000792e33d8d39b5599f (diff)
connector: add comm change event report to proc connector
Add an event to monitor comm value changes of tasks. Such an event becomes vital, if someone desires to control threads of a process in different manner. A natural characteristic of threads is its comm value, and helpfully application developers have an opportunity to change it in runtime. Reporting about such events via proc connector allows to fine-grain monitoring and control potentials, for instance a process control daemon listening to proc connector and following comm value policies can place specific threads to assigned cgroup partitions. It might be possible to achieve a pale partial one-shot likeness without this update, if an application changes comm value of a thread generator task beforehand, then a new thread is cloned, and after that proc connector listener gets the fork event and reads new thread's comm value from procfs stat file, but this change visibly simplifies and extends the matter. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@gmail.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 18ee1d2f6474..b3dfb76f8073 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1759,6 +1759,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
1759 sizeof(me->comm) - 1) < 0) 1759 sizeof(me->comm) - 1) < 0)
1760 return -EFAULT; 1760 return -EFAULT;
1761 set_task_comm(me, comm); 1761 set_task_comm(me, comm);
1762 proc_comm_connector(me);
1762 return 0; 1763 return 0;
1763 case PR_GET_NAME: 1764 case PR_GET_NAME:
1764 get_task_comm(comm, me); 1765 get_task_comm(comm, me);