fcntl: add F_[SG]ETOWN_EX

In order to direct the SIGIO signal to a particular thread of a
multi-threaded application we cannot, like suggested by the manpage, put a
TID into the regular fcntl(F_SETOWN) call.  It will still be send to the
whole process of which that thread is part.

Since people do want to properly direct SIGIO we introduce F_SETOWN_EX.

The need to direct SIGIO comes from self-monitoring profiling such as with
perf-counters.  Perf-counters uses SIGIO to notify that new sample data is
available.  If the signal is delivered to the same task that generated the
new sample it can augment that data by inspecting the task's user-space
state right after it returns from the kernel.  This is esp.  convenient
for interpreted or virtual machine driven environments.

Both F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX take a pointer to a struct f_owner_ex
as argument:

struct f_owner_ex {
	int   type;
	pid_t pid;
};

Where type is one of F_OWNER_TID, F_OWNER_PID or F_OWNER_GID.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h b/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
index 4d3e48373e74..0c3dd8603927 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
@@ -73,6 +73,19 @@
 #define F_SETSIG	10	/* for sockets. */
 #define F_GETSIG	11	/* for sockets. */
 #endif
+#ifndef F_SETOWN_EX
+#define F_SETOWN_EX	12
+#define F_GETOWN_EX	13
+#endif
+
+#define F_OWNER_TID	0
+#define F_OWNER_PID	1
+#define F_OWNER_GID	2
+
+struct f_owner_ex {
+	int	type;
+	pid_t	pid;
+};
 
 /* for F_[GET|SET]FL */
 #define FD_CLOEXEC	1	/* actually anything with low bit set goes */