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    Merge tag 'core-process-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux · c17112a5
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull pidfd/waitid updates from Christian Brauner:
     "This contains two features and various tests.
    
      First, it adds support for waiting on process through pidfds by adding
      the P_PIDFD type to the waitid() syscall. This completes the basic
      functionality of the pidfd api (cf. [1]). In the meantime we also have
      a new adition to the userspace projects that make use of the pidfd
      api. The qt project was nice enough to send a mail pointing out that
      they have a pr up to switch to the pidfd api (cf. [2]).
    
      Second, this tag contains an extension to the waitid() syscall to make
      it possible to wait on the current process group in a race free manner
      (even though the actual problem is very unlikely) by specifing 0
      together with the P_PGID type. This extension traces back to a
      discussion on the glibc development mailing list.
    
      There are also a range of tests for the features above. Additionally,
      the test-suite which detected the pidfd-polling race we fixed in [3]
      is included in this tag"
    
    [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/794707/
    [2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/108456
    [3] commit b191d649 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
    
    * tag 'core-process-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
      waitid: Add support for waiting for the current process group
      tests: add pidfd poll tests
      tests: move common definitions and functions into pidfd.h
      pidfd: add pidfd_wait tests
      pidfd: add P_PIDFD to waitid()
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