Re: [PATCH RESEND] connector: add parent pid and tgid to coredump and exit events

[David Miller]

From: Stefan Strogin <sstrogin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue,  1 May 2018 01:04:29 +0300

> The intention is to get notified of process failures as soon
> as possible, before a possible core dumping (which could be very long)
> (e.g. in some process-manager). Coredump and exit process events
> are perfect for such use cases (see 2b5faa4c553f "connector: Added
> coredumping event to the process connector").
> 
> The problem is that for now the process-manager cannot know the parent
> of a dying process using connectors. This could be useful if the
> process-manager should monitor for failures only children of certain
> parents, so we could filter the coredump and exit events by parent
> process and/or thread ID.
> 
> Add parent pid and tgid to coredump and exit process connectors event
> data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Strogin <sstrogin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next, thank you.