linux/Documentation/filesystems
Roman Gushchin c643401218 proc, coredump: add CoreDumping flag to /proc/pid/status
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.

We're getting a significant number of corrupted coredump files on
machines in our fleet, just because processes are being killed by
timeout in the middle of the core writing process.

We do have a process health check, and some agent is responsible for
restarting processes which are not responding for health check requests.
Writing a large coredump to the disk can easily exceed the reasonable
timeout (especially on an overloaded machine).

This flag will allow the agent to distinguish processes which are being
coredumped, extend the timeout for them, and let them produce a full
coredump file.

To provide an ability to detect if a process is in the state of being
coredumped, 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

[guro@fb.com: document CoreDumping flag in /proc/<pid>/status]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170928135357.GA8470@castle.DHCP.thefacebook.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170920230634.31572-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
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caching fscache: remove unused ->now_uncached callback 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
cifs CIFS/SMB3: Update documentation to reflect SMB3 and various changes 2017-09-17 10:48:00 -05:00
configfs fs: configfs: don't return anything from drop_link 2016-12-01 10:50:49 +01:00
nfs doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txt 2017-05-18 10:33:51 -06:00
pohmelfs Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes 2016-04-28 07:51:59 -06:00
00-INDEX logfs: remove from tree 2016-12-14 23:48:11 -05:00
9p.txt 9p: update documentation 2014-01-24 10:55:21 -06:00
Locking vfs: add flags to d_real() 2017-09-04 21:42:22 +02:00
adfs.txt
affs.txt affs: add mount option to avoid filename truncates 2014-04-07 16:36:08 -07:00
afs.txt afs: Fix documentation on # vs % prefix in mount source specification 2017-11-13 15:38:19 +00:00
autofs4-mount-control.txt autofs: update ioctl documentation regarding struct autofs_dev_ioctl 2017-02-27 18:43:45 -08:00
autofs4.txt Fix up over-eager 'wait_queue_t' renaming 2017-07-10 11:40:19 -07:00
automount-support.txt Documentation: remove outdated information from automount-support.txt 2015-05-15 01:10:38 -04:00
befs.txt
bfs.txt Tigran has moved 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
btrfs.txt Documentation: btrfs: remove usage specific information 2016-03-11 17:02:09 +01:00
ceph.txt ceph: set io_pages bdi hint 2017-02-20 12:16:05 +01:00
coda.txt
conf.py docs-rst: convert filesystems book to ReST 2017-05-16 08:44:08 -03:00
cramfs.txt mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
dax.txt dax: use common 4k zero page for dax mmap reads 2017-09-06 17:27:24 -07:00
debugfs.txt debugfs: Pass bool pointer to debugfs_create_bool() 2015-10-04 11:36:07 +01:00
devpts.txt devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem. 2016-06-05 10:36:01 -07:00
directory-locking vfs: remove unused i_op->rename 2016-09-27 11:03:58 +02:00
dlmfs.txt ocfs2: update web page + git tree in documentation 2015-02-28 09:57:50 -08:00
dnotify.txt Documentation: fix selftests related file refs 2017-10-19 12:58:21 -06:00
ecryptfs.txt
efivarfs.txt efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default 2016-02-10 16:25:52 +00:00
exofs.txt
ext2.txt fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver 2015-07-23 20:59:40 +02:00
ext3.txt fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver 2015-07-23 20:59:40 +02:00
ext4.txt Documentation: fix little inconsistencies 2017-09-26 14:30:48 -06:00
f2fs.txt f2fs: support journalled quota 2017-08-21 15:54:48 -07:00
fiemap.txt fsioctl.c: make generic_block_fiemap() signal-tolerant 2015-02-10 14:30:30 -08:00
files.txt
fscrypt.rst fscrypt: add a documentation file for filesystem-level encryption 2017-10-31 13:49:24 -04:00
fuse.txt
gfs2-glocks.txt gfs2: Remove gl_spin define 2015-10-29 12:57:48 -05:00
gfs2-uevents.txt
gfs2.txt
hfs.txt
hfsplus.txt Documentation: update URL to hfsplus Technote 1150 2014-02-20 14:48:51 +01:00
hpfs.txt
index.rst fscrypt: add a documentation file for filesystem-level encryption 2017-10-31 13:49:24 -04:00
inotify.txt inotify: update documentation to reflect code changes 2015-02-10 14:30:28 -08:00
isofs.txt
jfs.txt
locks.txt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
mandatory-locking.txt
ncpfs.txt
nilfs2.txt nilfs2: move ioctl interface and disk layout to uapi separately 2016-08-02 19:35:21 -04:00
ntfs.txt NTFS: Remove changelog from Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt. 2014-10-16 12:43:57 +01:00
ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt Doc: ocfs: Fix typo in filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt 2016-07-01 16:17:15 -06:00
ocfs2.txt ocfs2: update web page + git tree in documentation 2015-02-28 09:57:50 -08:00
omfs.txt
orangefs.txt orangefs: documentation clean up 2017-09-14 14:54:39 -04:00
overlayfs.txt ovl: fix regression caused by exclusive upper/work dir protection 2017-10-05 15:53:18 +02:00
path-lookup.md locking/atomics, doc/filesystems: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() references 2017-10-25 11:01:05 +02:00
path-lookup.txt Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup. 2015-11-02 18:18:25 -07:00
porting VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags 2017-07-17 08:45:35 +01:00
proc.txt proc, coredump: add CoreDumping flag to /proc/pid/status 2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
qnx6.txt Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes 2016-04-28 07:51:59 -06:00
quota.txt scripts/spelling.txt: add "an user" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified 2013-09-11 15:59:38 -07:00
relay.txt
romfs.txt
seq_file.txt Documentation: update seq_file 2014-12-29 15:40:18 -07:00
sharedsubtree.txt doc: fix grammar 2016-03-09 15:33:06 -07:00
spufs.txt
squashfs.txt Squashfs: Add LZ4 compression configuration option 2014-11-27 18:48:44 +00:00
sysfs-pci.txt PCI: Add pci_mmap_resource_range() and use it for ARM64 2017-04-20 08:47:47 -05:00
sysfs-tagging.txt sysfs-tagging.txt: fix pre-kernfs references 2015-09-13 14:38:51 -06:00
sysfs.txt driver core: remove DRIVER_ATTR 2017-09-19 09:20:33 +02:00
sysv-fs.txt
tmpfs.txt Documenation: update cgroup's document path 2016-08-03 15:43:58 -06:00
ubifs.txt
udf.txt udf: Remove some outdate references from documentation 2017-10-16 11:55:52 +02:00
ufs.txt
vfat.txt fat: add config option to set UTF-8 mount option by default 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
vfs.txt Merge branch 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs 2017-09-13 09:11:44 -07:00
xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt
xfs.txt xfs: deprecate barrier/nobarrier mount option 2016-12-09 16:49:54 +11:00