Adding Andrew Morton and Oleg Nesterov to cc.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 12:17:15PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Right now there is no convenient way to check if a process is being
> coredumped at the moment.
>
> It might be necessary to recognize such state to prevent killing
> the process and getting a broken coredump.
> Writing a large core might take significant time, and the process
> is unresponsive during it, so it might be killed by timeout,
> if another process is monitoring and killing/restarting
> hanging tasks.
>
> To provide an ability to detect if a process is in the state of
> being coreduped, we can expose a boolean CoreDumping flag
> in /proc/pid/status.
>
> Example:
> $ cat core.sh
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echo "|/usr/bin/sleep 10" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
> sleep 1000 &
> PID=$!
>
> cat /proc/$PID/status | grep CoreDumping
> kill -ABRT $PID
> sleep 1
> cat /proc/$PID/status | grep CoreDumping
>
> $ ./core.sh
> CoreDumping: 0
> CoreDumping: 1
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Cc: kernel-t...@fb.com
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> fs/proc/array.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
> index 88c355574aa0..fc4a0aa7f487 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/array.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/array.c
> @@ -369,6 +369,11 @@ static void task_cpus_allowed(struct seq_file *m, struct
> task_struct *task)
> cpumask_pr_args(&task->cpus_allowed));
> }
>
> +static inline void task_core_dumping(struct seq_file *m, struct mm_struct
> *mm)
> +{
> + seq_printf(m, "CoreDumping:\t%d\n", !!mm->core_state);
> +}
> +
> int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
> {
> @@ -379,6 +384,7 @@ int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct
> pid_namespace *ns,
>
> if (mm) {
> task_mem(m, mm);
> + task_core_dumping(m, mm);
> mmput(mm);
> }
> task_sig(m, task);
> --
> 2.13.5
>
