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Adds bit perf_event_attr::sigtrap, which can be set to cause events to send SIGTRAP (with si_code TRAP_PERF) to the task where the event occurred. The primary motivation is to support synchronous signals on perf events in the task where an event (such as breakpoints) triggered. To distinguish perf events based on the event type, the type is set in si_errno. For events that are associated with an address, si_addr is copied from perf_sample_data. The new field perf_event_attr::sig_data is copied to si_perf, which allows user space to disambiguate which event (of the same type) triggered the signal. For example, user space could encode the relevant information it cares about in sig_data. We note that the choice of an opaque u64 provides the simplest and most flexible option. Alternatives where a reference to some user space data is passed back suffer from the problem that modification of referenced data (be it the event fd, or the perf_event_attr) can race with the signal being delivered (of course, the same caveat applies if user space decides to store a pointer in sig_data, but the ABI explicitly avoids prescribing such a design). Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YBv3rAT566k+6zjg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/ |
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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 Restructured Text 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.