#ifndef _LINUX_PID_H
#define _LINUX_PID_H
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
enum pid_type
{
PIDTYPE_PID,
PIDTYPE_PGID,
PIDTYPE_SID,
PIDTYPE_MAX
};
/*
* What is struct pid?
*
* A struct pid is the kernel's internal notion of a process identifier.
* It refers to individual tasks, process groups, and sessions. While
* there are processes attached to it the struct pid lives in a hash
* table, so it and then the processes that it refers to can be found
* quickly from the numeric pid value. The attached processes may be
* quickly accessed by following pointers from struct pid.
* Storing pid_t values in the kernel and refering to them later has a
* problem. The process originally with that pid may have exited and the
* pid allocator wrapped, and another process could have come along
* and been assigned that pid.
* Referring to user space processes by holding a reference to struct
* task_struct has a problem. When the user space process exits
* the now useless task_struct is still kept. A task_struct plus a
* stack consumes around 10K of low kernel memory. More precisely
* this is THREAD_SIZE + sizeof(struct task_struct). By comparison
* a struct pid is about 64 bytes.
* Holding a reference to struct pid solves both of these problems.
* It is small so holding a reference does not consume a lot of
* resources, and since a new struct pid is allocated when the numeric pid
* value is reused (when pids wrap around) we don't mistakenly refer to new
* processes.
*/
struct pid
atomic_t count;
/* Try to keep pid_chain in the same cacheline as nr for find_pid */
int nr;
struct hlist_node pid_chain;
/* lists of tasks that use this pid */
struct hlist_head tasks[PIDTYPE_MAX];
struct rcu_head rcu;
struct pid_link
struct hlist_node node;
struct pid *pid;
static inline struct pid *get_pid(struct pid *pid)
if (pid)
atomic_inc(&pid->count);
return pid;
}
extern void FASTCALL(put_pid(struct pid *pid));
extern struct task_struct *FASTCALL(pid_task(struct pid *pid, enum pid_type));
extern struct task_struct *FASTCALL(get_pid_task(struct pid *pid,
enum pid_type));
extern struct pid *get_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type);
* attach_pid() and detach_pid() must be called with the tasklist_lock
* write-held.
extern int FASTCALL(attach_pid(struct task_struct *task,
enum pid_type type, int nr));
extern void FASTCALL(detach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type));
extern void FASTCALL(transfer_pid(struct task_struct *old,
struct task_struct *new, enum pid_type));
* look up a PID in the hash table. Must be called with the tasklist_lock
* or rcu_read_lock() held.
extern struct pid *FASTCALL(find_pid(int nr));
* Lookup a PID in the hash table, and return with it's count elevated.
extern struct pid *find_get_pid(int nr);
extern struct pid *find_ge_pid(int nr);
extern struct pid *alloc_pid(void);
extern void FASTCALL(free_pid(struct pid *pid));
static inline pid_t pid_nr(struct pid *pid)
pid_t nr = 0;
nr = pid->nr;
return nr;
#define do_each_pid_task(pid, type, task) \
do { \
struct hlist_node *pos___; \
if (pid != NULL) \
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu((task), pos___, \
&pid->tasks[type], pids[type].node) {
#define while_each_pid_task(pid, type, task) \
} \
} while (0)
#endif /* _LINUX_PID_H */