Re: [PATCH] coredump debugging: add a tracepoint to report the coredumping

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:49:24 +0100
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 02/17, wenyang.linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > From: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Currently coredump_task_exit() takes some time to wait for the generation
> > of the dump file. But if the user-space wants to receive a notification
> > as soon as possible it maybe inconvenient.
> >
> > Add the new trace_sched_process_coredump() into coredump_task_exit(),
> > this way a user-space monitor could easily wait for the exits and
> > potentially make some preparations in advance.  
> 
> Can't comment, I never know when the new tracepoint will make sense.
> 
> Stupid question. Can we simply shift trace_sched_process_exit() up
> before coredump_task_exit() ?

Reading the rest of the thread and looking at the code, we do have this:

void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
{
	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
	int group_dead;

[...]
	acct_collect(code, group_dead);
	if (group_dead)
		tty_audit_exit();
	audit_free(tsk);

	tsk->exit_code = code;
	taskstats_exit(tsk, group_dead);

	exit_mm();

	if (group_dead)
		acct_process();
	trace_sched_process_exit(tsk);

There's a lot that happens before we trigger the above event. I could
imagine that there are users expecting those actions to have taken place by
the time the event triggered. Like the "exit_mm()" call, as well as many
others.

I would be leery of moving that tracepoint.

-- Steve