Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Add selftests for pidfd polling

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Tue May 14 2019 - 11:18:54 EST


On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:21:54PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> Other than verifying pidfd based polling, the tests make sure that
> wait semantics are preserved with the pidfd poll. Notably the 2 cases:
> 1. If a thread group leader exits while threads still there, then no
> pidfd poll notifcation should happen.
> 2. If a non-thread group leader does an execve, then the thread group
> leader is signaled to exit and is replaced with the execing thread
> as the new leader, however the parent is not notified in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/log/?h=for-next

and targeted for the 5.3 merge window.

Thank you all!
Christian