Events sent by Process Events Connector from a 64-bit kernel are not binary
compatible with a 32-bit userspace program because the "timestamp" field
(struct timespec) is not arch independent. This affects the fields that
follow "timestamp" as they will be be off by 8 bytes.
This is a problem for 32-bit userspace programs running with 64-bit kernels
on ppc64, s390, x86-64.. any "biarch" system.
Matt had submitted a different solution to lkml as an RFC earlier. We have
since switched to a solution recommended by Evgeniy Polyakov.
This patch fixes the problem by changing the timestamp to be a __u64, which
stores the number of nanoseconds.
Tested on a x86_64 system with both 32 bit application and 64 bit
application and on a i386 system.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Change the license on the process event structure passed between kernel and
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Acked-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Move connector header include to precisely where it's needed.
Remove unused time.h header file as well. This was leftover from previous
iterations of the process events patches.
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Cc: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds a timestamp field to the events sent via the process event
connector. The timestamp allows listeners to accurately account the
duration(s) between a process' events and offers strong means with which
to determine the order of events with respect to a given task while also
avoiding the addition of per-task data.
This alters the size and layout of the event structure and hence would
break compatibility if process events connector as it stands in 2.6.15-rc2
were released as a mainline kernel.
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The uid_t and gid_t fields appear to present a 32/64-bit userspace/kernel
problem for some archs.
This patch addresses the problem by fixing the size to the largest size for
uid_t/gid_t used in the kernel. This preserves the total size of the event
structure while ensuring that the layouts of the ID change event match in
32 and 64-bit kernels and applications.
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds a connector that reports fork, exec, id change, and exit
events for all processes to userspace. It replaces the fork_advisor patch
that ELSA is currently using. Applications that may find these events
useful include accounting/auditing (e.g. ELSA), system activity monitoring
(e.g. top), security, and resource management (e.g. CKRM).
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
