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Andrii Nakryiko 3ca55ca225 exit: move and extend sched_process_exit() tracepoint
It is useful to be able to access current->mm at task exit to, say, record
a bunch of VMA information right before the task exits (e.g., for stack
symbolization reasons when dealing with short-lived processes that exit in
the middle of profiling session).  Currently, trace_sched_process_exit()
is triggered after exit_mm() which resets current->mm to NULL making this
tracepoint unsuitable for inspecting and recording task's
mm_struct-related data when tracing process lifetimes.

There is a particularly suitable place, though, right after
taskstats_exit() is called, but before we do exit_mm() and other exit_*()
resource teardowns.  taskstats performs a similar kind of accounting that
some applications do with BPF, and so co-locating them seems like a good
fit.  So that's where trace_sched_process_exit() is moved with this patch.

Also, existing trace_sched_process_exit() tracepoint is notoriously
missing `group_dead` flag that is certainly useful in practice and some of
our production applications have to work around this.  So plumb
`group_dead` through while at it, to have a richer and more complete
tracepoint.

Note that we can't use sched_process_template anymore, and so we use
TRACE_EVENT()-based tracepoint definition.  But all the field names and
order, as well as assign and output logic remain intact.  We just add one
extra field at the end in backwards-compatible way.

[andrii@kernel.org: document sched_process_exit and sched_process_template relation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250403174120.4087794-1-andrii@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402180925.90914-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11 17:54:03 -07:00
arch ARM: 2025-05-11 11:30:13 -07:00
block block-6.15-20250509 2025-05-09 10:34:50 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: scompress - increment scomp_scratch_users when already allocated 2025-04-25 10:33:30 +08:00
Documentation Input updates for v6.15-rc5 2025-05-11 10:29:29 -07:00
drivers Misc timers fixes: 2025-05-11 10:33:25 -07:00
fs 22 hotfixes. 13 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.14 issues 2025-05-10 15:50:56 -07:00
include exit: move and extend sched_process_exit() tracepoint 2025-05-11 17:54:03 -07:00
init rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's unnecessary_transmutes lint 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/sqpoll: Increase task_work submission batch size 2025-05-09 07:56:53 -06:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel exit: move and extend sched_process_exit() tracepoint 2025-05-11 17:54:03 -07:00
lib hardening fixes for v6.15-rc3 2025-04-18 13:20:20 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm memblock fixes for v6.15-rc6 2025-05-11 10:23:53 -07:00
net net: export a helper for adding up queue stats 2025-05-08 11:56:12 +02:00
rust rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's clippy::uninlined_format_args lint 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix compilation failure for samples/bpf on LoongArch Fedora 2025-04-25 09:32:02 -07:00
scripts scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn section 2025-05-08 12:01:01 +00:00
security Landlock fix for v6.15-rc4 2025-04-24 12:59:05 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.15 2025-05-01 10:22:20 +02:00
tools ARM: 2025-05-11 11:30:13 -07:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-05 04:06:45 +09:00
virt ARM: 2025-04-08 13:47:55 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update the ForEachMacros list for v6.15-rc1 2025-04-13 11:03:59 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved 2025-03-17 00:29:50 +09:00
.mailmap Input updates for v6.15-rc5 2025-05-11 10:29:29 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update SLAB ALLOCATOR maintainers 2025-04-17 20:10:06 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Input updates for v6.15-rc5 2025-05-11 10:29:29 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.15-rc6 2025-05-11 14:54:11 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.