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| author | Cyrill Gorcunov | 2012-05-31 16:26:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2012-05-31 17:49:32 -0700 |
| commit | d97b46a64674a267bc41c9e16132ee2a98c3347d (patch) | |
| tree | 316f77d212c84aef226684eb05d5d33f40743ac9 /arch | |
| 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 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl index 29f9f0554f7d..7a35a6e71d44 100644 --- a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl @@ -355,3 +355,4 @@ 346 i386 setns sys_setns 347 i386 process_vm_readv sys_process_vm_readv compat_sys_process_vm_readv 348 i386 process_vm_writev sys_process_vm_writev compat_sys_process_vm_writev +349 i386 kcmp sys_kcmp diff --git a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl index dd29a9ea27c5..51171aeff0dc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl @@ -318,6 +318,8 @@ 309 common getcpu sys_getcpu 310 64 process_vm_readv sys_process_vm_readv 311 64 process_vm_writev sys_process_vm_writev +312 64 kcmp sys_kcmp + # # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact # for native 64-bit operation. |