linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] kernel/signal: Signal-based pre-coredump notification

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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:37:11 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:     Enke Chen <enkechen@...co.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
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        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
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        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
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        "Victor Kamensky (kamensky)" <kamensky@...co.com>,
        xe-linux-external@...co.com, Stefan Strogin <sstrogin@...co.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] kernel/signal: Signal-based pre-coredump
 notification

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:46:29 +0100 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:

> On 10/29, Enke Chen wrote:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> 
> Hmm. I didn't say this ;)
> 
> But OK, feel free to keep this tag.
> 
> I do not like this feauture.

Why is that?

> But I see no technical problems in this version
> and I never pretented I understand the user-space needs, so I won't argue.

The changelog appears to spell this all out quite well?  Unusually
well, in my experience ;)

A couple of things...

- We'll be looking for a manpage update please.  (Search MAINTAINERS
  for "manpage")

- As it's a linux-specific feature, a test under
  tools/testing/selftests would be appropriate.  I don't know how much
  that work will be.  Do we have other linux-specific signal extensions
  which could piggyback onto that?