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Andrey Vagin 84c751bd4a ptrace: add ability to retrieve signals without removing from a queue (v4) 
This patch adds a new ptrace request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO.

This request is used to retrieve information about pending signals
starting with the specified sequence number.  Siginfo_t structures are
copied from the child into the buffer starting at "data".

The argument "addr" is a pointer to struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args.
struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args {
	u64 off;	/* from which siginfo to start */
	u32 flags;
	s32 nr;		/* how may siginfos to take */
};

"nr" has type "s32", because ptrace() returns "long", which has 32 bits on
i386 and a negative values is used for errors.

Currently here is only one flag PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO_SHARED for dumping
signals from process-wide queue.  If this flag is not set, signals are
read from a per-thread queue.

The request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO returns a number of dumped signals.  If a
signal with the specified sequence number doesn't exist, ptrace returns
zero.  The request returns an error, if no signal has been dumped.

Errors:
EINVAL - one or more specified flags are not supported or nr is negative
EFAULT - buf or addr is outside your accessible address space.

A result siginfo contains a kernel part of si_code which usually striped,
but it's required for queuing the same siginfo back during restore of
pending signals.

This functionality is required for checkpointing pending signals.  Pedro
Alves suggested using it in "gdb" to peek at pending signals.  gdb already
uses PTRACE_GETSIGINFO to get the siginfo for the signal which was already
dequeued.  This functionality allows gdb to look at the pending signals
which were not reported yet.

The prototype of this code was developed by Oleg Nesterov.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:05 -07:00
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cpu Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-04-30 08:15:40 -07:00
debug KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups 2013-03-02 08:31:39 -08:00
events Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-04-30 07:41:01 -07:00
gcov kernel/gcov: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2013-01-11 11:39:33 -08:00
irq Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
power Driver core patches for 3.9-rc1 2013-02-21 12:05:51 -08:00
sched workqueue: include workqueue info when printing debug dump of a worker task 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
time clockevents: Set dummy handler on CPU_DEAD shutdown 2013-04-25 13:57:04 +02:00
trace Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-04-30 07:41:01 -07:00
.gitignore kernel/hz.bc: ignore. 2013-04-22 07:09:06 -07:00
acct.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
async.c async: rename and redefine async_func_ptr 2013-03-12 13:59:14 -07:00
audit.c audit: don't check if kauditd is valid every time 2013-04-29 15:54:26 -07:00
audit.h audit: remove unnecessary #if CONFIG_AUDIT 2013-04-29 15:54:26 -07:00
audit_tree.c kernel/audit_tree.c: tree will leak memory when failure occurs in audit_trim_trees() 2013-04-29 15:54:26 -07:00
audit_watch.c audit: catch possible NULL audit buffers 2013-01-11 14:54:55 -08:00
auditfilter.c kernel/auditfilter.c: tree and watch will memory leak when failure occurs 2013-04-29 15:54:26 -07:00
auditsc.c kernel/auditsc.c: use kzalloc instead of kmalloc+memset 2013-04-29 15:54:26 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c Add file_ns_capable() helper function for open-time capability checking 2013-04-14 10:06:31 -07:00
cgroup.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-04-30 07:43:28 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: rename ->create/post_create/pre_destroy/destroy() to ->css_alloc/online/offline/free() 2012-11-19 08:13:38 -08:00
compat.c kernel/compat.c: make do_sysinfo() static 2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-19 18:19:48 -08:00
cpu.c Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-19 19:04:55 -08:00
cpu_pm.c kernel/cpu_pm.c: fix various typos 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
cpuset.c Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2013-04-29 19:14:20 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-12-18 10:55:28 -08:00
delayacct.c cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats 2013-01-27 19:23:31 +01:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c Revert "lockdep: check that no locks held at freeze time" 2013-03-31 11:38:33 -07:00
extable.c extable: Flip the sorting message 2013-04-15 13:25:16 +02:00
fork.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-04-30 07:43:28 -07:00
freezer.c freezer: change ptrace_stop/do_signal_stop to use freezable_schedule() 2012-10-26 14:27:49 -07:00
futex.c futex: fix kernel-doc notation and spello 2013-03-12 20:42:10 -07:00
futex_compat.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-02-23 18:50:11 -08:00
groups.c
hrtimer.c Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core 2013-04-24 20:33:54 +02:00
hung_task.c
irq_work.c Merge branch 'nohz/printk-v8' into irq/core 2013-02-05 00:48:46 +01:00
itimer.c
jump_label.c jump_label: Export jump_label_rate_limit() 2012-08-06 19:00:35 +03:00
kallsyms.c vsprintf: fix %ps on non symbols when using kallsyms 2012-05-29 16:22:32 -07:00
kcmp.c kcmp: include linux/ptrace.h 2012-12-20 17:40:19 -08:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking: Adjust spin lock inlining Kconfig options 2012-09-13 17:56:13 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec, vmalloc: export additional vmalloc layer information 2013-04-29 15:54:34 -07:00
kmod.c Merge branch 'master' into for-3.9-async 2013-01-23 09:31:01 -08:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Fix a double lock bug of kprobe_mutex 2013-04-18 08:58:38 -07:00
ksysfs.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-12-11 18:10:49 -08:00
kthread.c kthread: implement probe_kthread_data() 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
latencytop.c
lglock.c brlocks/lglocks: turn into functions 2012-05-29 23:28:41 -04:00
lockdep.c lockdep: Consolidate bug messages into a single print_lockdep_off() function 2013-04-26 08:37:22 +02:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c lockdep: Use KSYM_NAME_LEN'ed buffer for __get_key_name() 2012-10-24 12:39:09 +02:00
lockdep_states.h
Makefile idle: Provide a generic entry point for the idle code 2013-04-08 17:39:23 +02:00
modsign_certificate.S MODSIGN: Avoid using .incbin in C source 2012-12-14 13:06:44 +10:30
modsign_pubkey.c keys: use keyring_alloc() to create module signing keyring 2012-12-20 17:40:21 -08:00
module-internal.h MODSIGN: Move the magic string to the end of a module and eliminate the search 2012-10-19 17:30:40 -07:00
module.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
module_signing.c MODSIGN: Don't use enum-type bitfields in module signature info block 2012-12-05 11:27:24 +10:30
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c mutex: Back out architecture specific check for negative mutex count 2013-04-19 09:33:36 +02:00
mutex.h
notifier.c
nsproxy.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
padata.c padata: use __this_cpu_read per-cpu helper 2012-12-06 17:16:23 +08:00
panic.c dump_stack: implement arch-specific hardware description in task dumps 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
params.c
pid.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
pid_namespace.c pid: Handle the exit of a multi-threaded init. 2013-03-26 03:41:23 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-19 19:05:45 -08:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: Remove unused variable 2013-04-18 12:51:19 +02:00
printk.c workqueue: include workqueue info when printing debug dump of a worker task 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
profile.c profiling: Remove unused timer hook 2013-01-24 15:37:26 +01:00
ptrace.c ptrace: add ability to retrieve signals without removing from a queue (v4) 2013-04-30 17:04:05 -07:00
range.c kernel/range.c: subtract_range: fix the broken phrase issued by printk 2013-04-30 17:04:01 -07:00
rcu.h rcu: Provide RCU CPU stall warnings for tiny RCU 2013-01-28 22:06:21 -08:00
rcupdate.c Merge branches 'doctorture.2013.01.29a', 'fixes.2013.01.26a', 'tagcb.2013.01.24a' and 'tiny.2013.01.29b' into HEAD 2013-01-28 22:25:21 -08:00
rcutiny.c Merge branches 'doctorture.2013.01.29a', 'fixes.2013.01.26a', 'tagcb.2013.01.24a' and 'tiny.2013.01.29b' into HEAD 2013-01-28 22:25:21 -08:00
rcutiny_plugin.h rcu: Provide RCU CPU stall warnings for tiny RCU 2013-01-28 22:06:21 -08:00
rcutorture.c rcu: Allow rcutorture to be built at low optimization levels 2013-02-04 12:18:20 -08:00
rcutree.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-04-30 07:39:01 -07:00
rcutree.h Merge branches 'doc.2013.03.12a', 'fixes.2013.03.13a' and 'idlenocb.2013.03.26b' into HEAD 2013-03-26 08:07:38 -07:00
rcutree_plugin.h Merge branches 'doc.2013.03.12a', 'fixes.2013.03.13a' and 'idlenocb.2013.03.26b' into HEAD 2013-03-26 08:07:38 -07:00
rcutree_trace.c rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks 2013-03-26 08:04:51 -07:00
relay.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
res_counter.c res_counter: return amount of charges after res_counter_uncharge() 2012-12-18 15:02:12 -08:00
resource.c mem hotunplug: fix kfree() of bootmem memory 2013-04-29 15:54:40 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file 2013-02-07 20:51:08 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c locking/rtmutex/tester: Set correct permissions on sysfs files 2013-04-10 14:48:37 +02:00
rtmutex.c sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file 2013-02-07 20:51:08 +01:00
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c lockdep, rwsem: provide down_write_nest_lock() 2013-01-11 14:54:55 -08:00
seccomp.c seccomp: Make syscall skipping and nr changes more consistent 2012-10-02 21:14:29 +10:00
semaphore.c
signal.c arc, print-fatal-signals: reduce duplicated information 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
smp.c kernel/smp.c: cleanups 2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
smpboot.c kthread: Prevent unpark race which puts threads on the wrong cpu 2013-04-12 14:18:43 +02:00
smpboot.h smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads 2012-08-13 17:01:07 +02:00
softirq.c kernel/smp.c: remove 'priv' of call_single_data 2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c srcu: use ACCESS_ONCE() to access sp->completed in srcu_read_lock() 2013-02-07 15:19:36 -08:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Mark per cpu stopper enabled early 2013-02-26 22:25:17 +01:00
sys.c kernel/timer.c: move some non timer related syscalls to kernel/sys.c 2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
sys_ni.c module: add syscall to load module from fd 2012-12-14 13:05:22 +10:30
sysctl.c mm: replace hardcoded 3% with admin_reserve_pages knob 2013-04-29 15:54:36 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c sysctl: fix null checking in bin_dn_node_address() 2013-02-27 19:10:21 -08:00
task_work.c task_work: task_work_add() should not succeed after exit_task_work() 2012-09-13 16:47:34 +02:00
taskstats.c taskstats: cgroupstats_user_cmd() may leak on error 2012-10-06 03:05:31 +09:00
test_kprobes.c kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32() 2013-04-29 18:28:42 -07:00
time.c timekeeping: Use inject_offset in warp_clock 2013-03-15 16:50:20 -07:00
timeconst.bc kernel: Replace timeconst.pl with a bc script 2013-02-16 23:17:25 +01:00
timer.c kernel/timer.c: move some non timer related syscalls to kernel/sys.c 2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
tracepoint.c Tracing updates for Linux 3.10 2013-04-29 13:55:38 -07:00
tsacct.c cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats 2013-01-27 19:23:31 +01:00
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
user.c userns: Restrict when proc and sysfs can be mounted 2013-03-27 07:50:08 -07:00
user_namespace.c userns: Changing any namespace id mappings should require privileges 2013-04-14 18:11:32 -07:00
utsname.c kernel/utsname.c: fix wrong comment about clone_uts_ns() 2013-02-27 19:10:22 -08:00
utsname_sysctl.c kernel/utsname_sysctl.c: put get/get_uts() into CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL code block 2013-02-27 19:10:22 -08:00
wait.c propagate name change to comments in kernel source 2012-12-06 10:39:54 +01:00
watchdog.c watchdog: Add comments to explain the watchdog_disabled variable 2013-03-14 08:24:05 +01:00
workqueue.c workqueue: include workqueue info when printing debug dump of a worker task 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: include workqueue info when printing debug dump of a worker task 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00