fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry

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.

This is a first level children, not the whole process tree.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index bd8b4ca6..616f41a 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -3400,6 +3400,9 @@ static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = {
 	ONE("stat",      S_IRUGO, proc_tid_stat),
 	ONE("statm",     S_IRUGO, proc_pid_statm),
 	REG("maps",      S_IRUGO, proc_tid_maps_operations),
+#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+	REG("children",  S_IRUGO, proc_tid_children_operations),
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	REG("numa_maps", S_IRUGO, proc_tid_numa_maps_operations),
 #endif