From b086ff87251b4a4c147bc3af20369514e9d0d9ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Strogin Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 01:04:29 +0300 Subject: connector: add parent pid and tgid to coredump and exit events The intention is to get notified of process failures as soon as possible, before a possible core dumping (which could be very long) (e.g. in some process-manager). Coredump and exit process events are perfect for such use cases (see 2b5faa4c553f "connector: Added coredumping event to the process connector"). The problem is that for now the process-manager cannot know the parent of a dying process using connectors. This could be useful if the process-manager should monitor for failures only children of certain parents, so we could filter the coredump and exit events by parent process and/or thread ID. Add parent pid and tgid to coredump and exit process connectors event data. Signed-off-by: Stefan Strogin Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h b/include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h index 68ff25414700..db210625cee8 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h @@ -116,12 +116,16 @@ struct proc_event { struct coredump_proc_event { __kernel_pid_t process_pid; __kernel_pid_t process_tgid; + __kernel_pid_t parent_pid; + __kernel_pid_t parent_tgid; } coredump; struct exit_proc_event { __kernel_pid_t process_pid; __kernel_pid_t process_tgid; __u32 exit_code, exit_signal; + __kernel_pid_t parent_pid; + __kernel_pid_t parent_tgid; } exit; } event_data; -- cgit