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: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
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
