From 2e13ba54a2682eea24918b87ad3edf70c2cf085b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Iago López Galeiras Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:00:57 -0700 Subject: fs, proc: introduce CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Commit 818411616baf ("fs, proc: introduce /proc//task//children entry") introduced the children entry for checkpoint restore and the file is only available on kernels configured with CONFIG_EXPERT and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE. This is available in most distributions (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, CoreOS) because they usually enable CONFIG_EXPERT and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE. But Arch does not enable CONFIG_EXPERT or CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE. However, the children proc file is useful outside of checkpoint restore. I would like to use it in rkt. The rkt process exec() another program it does not control, and that other program will fork()+exec() a child process. I would like to find the pid of the child process from an external tool without iterating in /proc over all processes to find which one has a parent pid equal to rkt. This commit introduces CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN and makes CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE select it. This allows enabling /proc//task//children without needing to enable CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE and CONFIG_EXPERT. Alban tested that /proc//task//children is present when the kernel is configured with CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN=y but without CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE Signed-off-by: Iago López Galeiras Tested-by: Alban Crequy Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Djalal Harouni Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/Kconfig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/proc/Kconfig') diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig index 2183fcf41d59..d751fcb637bb 100644 --- a/fs/proc/Kconfig +++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig @@ -71,3 +71,7 @@ config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap, /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb. + +config PROC_CHILDREN + bool "Include /proc//task//children file" + default n -- cgit