linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry v6

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:43:28 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Andrew Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry
 v6

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:38:27PM -0500, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> (1/16/12 10:32 AM), Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >When we do checkpoint of a task we need to know the list of children
> >the task, has but there is no easy and fast way to generate reverse
> >parent->children chain from arbitrary<pid>  (while a parent pid is
> >provided in "PPid" field of /proc/<pid>/status).
> >
> >So instead of walking over all pids in the system (creating one big process
> >tree in memory, just to figure out which children a task has) -- we add
> >explicit /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry, because the kernel already has
> >this kind of information but it is not yet exported.
> 
> I doubt this is good idea. It move some complexity to userland, but not reduce.
> Again, if we add this interface, it should help pstree like process traversal
> tools. Bare task hierarchy shouldn't be exposed userland. I believe users need
> sub process, not sub threads.
>

Which exactly complexity it moves to user-space? You have some task, and now
you can find all children easily, what the complexity you're talking about?
pstree is building the whole process tree going through all entries in
/proc/<pid>, reading PPid field and then forming the topology. I would like
to be able to find children faster. So I readdir a /proc/<pid>/task/ and
the walk over every /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children. This helps alot.

	Cyrill
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