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authorDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>2007-05-10 22:23:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-11 08:29:36 -0700
commitfba2afaaec790dc5ab4ae8827972f342211bbb86 (patch)
tree2694d4cd8c6b7d69a5569b92151d61a3d4af39b7 /include/linux/signalfd.h
parent5dc8bf8132d59c03fe2562bce165c2f03f021687 (diff)
signal/timer/event: signalfd core
This patch series implements the new signalfd() system call. I took part of the original Linus code (and you know how badly it can be broken :), and I added even more breakage ;) Signals are fetched from the same signal queue used by the process, so signalfd will compete with standard kernel delivery in dequeue_signal(). If you want to reliably fetch signals on the signalfd file, you need to block them with sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK). This seems to be working fine on my Dual Opteron machine. I made a quick test program for it: http://www.xmailserver.org/signafd-test.c The signalfd() system call implements signal delivery into a file descriptor receiver. The signalfd file descriptor if created with the following API: int signalfd(int ufd, const sigset_t *mask, size_t masksize); The "ufd" parameter allows to change an existing signalfd sigmask, w/out going to close/create cycle (Linus idea). Use "ufd" == -1 if you want a brand new signalfd file. The "mask" allows to specify the signal mask of signals that we are interested in. The "masksize" parameter is the size of "mask". The signalfd fd supports the poll(2) and read(2) system calls. The poll(2) will return POLLIN when signals are available to be dequeued. As a direct consequence of supporting the Linux poll subsystem, the signalfd fd can use used together with epoll(2) too. The read(2) system call will return a "struct signalfd_siginfo" structure in the userspace supplied buffer. The return value is the number of bytes copied in the supplied buffer, or -1 in case of error. The read(2) call can also return 0, in case the sighand structure to which the signalfd was attached, has been orphaned. The O_NONBLOCK flag is also supported, and read(2) will return -EAGAIN in case no signal is available. If the size of the buffer passed to read(2) is lower than sizeof(struct signalfd_siginfo), -EINVAL is returned. A read from the signalfd can also return -ERESTARTSYS in case a signal hits the process. The format of the struct signalfd_siginfo is, and the valid fields depends of the (->code & __SI_MASK) value, in the same way a struct siginfo would: struct signalfd_siginfo { __u32 signo; /* si_signo */ __s32 err; /* si_errno */ __s32 code; /* si_code */ __u32 pid; /* si_pid */ __u32 uid; /* si_uid */ __s32 fd; /* si_fd */ __u32 tid; /* si_fd */ __u32 band; /* si_band */ __u32 overrun; /* si_overrun */ __u32 trapno; /* si_trapno */ __s32 status; /* si_status */ __s32 svint; /* si_int */ __u64 svptr; /* si_ptr */ __u64 utime; /* si_utime */ __u64 stime; /* si_stime */ __u64 addr; /* si_addr */ }; [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix signalfd_copyinfo() on i386] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/signalfd.h b/include/linux/signalfd.h
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+/*
+ * include/linux/signalfd.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_SIGNALFD_H
+#define _LINUX_SIGNALFD_H
+
+
+struct signalfd_siginfo {
+ __u32 signo;
+ __s32 err;
+ __s32 code;
+ __u32 pid;
+ __u32 uid;
+ __s32 fd;
+ __u32 tid;
+ __u32 band;
+ __u32 overrun;
+ __u32 trapno;
+ __s32 status;
+ __s32 svint;
+ __u64 svptr;
+ __u64 utime;
+ __u64 stime;
+ __u64 addr;
+
+ /*
+ * Pad strcture to 128 bytes. Remember to update the
+ * pad size when you add new memebers. We use a fixed
+ * size structure to avoid compatibility problems with
+ * future versions, and we leave extra space for additional
+ * members. We use fixed size members because this strcture
+ * comes out of a read(2) and we really don't want to have
+ * a compat on read(2).
+ */
+ __u8 __pad[48];
+};
+
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SIGNALFD
+
+/*
+ * Deliver the signal to listening signalfd. This must be called
+ * with the sighand lock held. Same are the following that end up
+ * calling signalfd_deliver().
+ */
+void signalfd_deliver(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig);
+
+/*
+ * No need to fall inside signalfd_deliver() if no signal listeners
+ * are available.
+ */
+static inline void signalfd_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
+{
+ if (unlikely(!list_empty(&tsk->sighand->signalfd_list)))
+ signalfd_deliver(tsk, sig);
+}
+
+/*
+ * The signal -1 is used to notify the signalfd that the sighand
+ * is on its way to be detached.
+ */
+static inline void signalfd_detach_locked(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ if (unlikely(!list_empty(&tsk->sighand->signalfd_list)))
+ signalfd_deliver(tsk, -1);
+}
+
+static inline void signalfd_detach(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ struct sighand_struct *sighand = tsk->sighand;
+
+ if (unlikely(!list_empty(&sighand->signalfd_list))) {
+ spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
+ signalfd_deliver(tsk, -1);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
+ }
+}
+
+#else /* CONFIG_SIGNALFD */
+
+#define signalfd_deliver(t, s) do { } while (0)
+#define signalfd_notify(t, s) do { } while (0)
+#define signalfd_detach_locked(t) do { } while (0)
+#define signalfd_detach(t) do { } while (0)
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SIGNALFD */
+
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_SIGNALFD_H */
+