Re: Task watchers v2

["Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 16:07 -0800, Matt Helsley wrote:
> plain text document attachment (task-watchers-v2)
> Associate function calls with significant events in a task's lifetime much like
> we handle kernel and module init/exit functions. This creates a table for each
> of the following events in the task_watchers_table ELF section:
> 
> WATCH_TASK_INIT at the beginning of a fork/clone system call when the
> new task struct first becomes available.
> 
> WATCH_TASK_CLONE just before returning successfully from a fork/clone.
> 
> WATCH_TASK_EXEC just before successfully returning from the exec
> system call.
> 
> WATCH_TASK_UID every time a task's real or effective user id changes.
> 
> WATCH_TASK_GID every time a task's real or effective group id changes.
> 
> WATCH_TASK_EXIT at the beginning of do_exit when a task is exiting
> for any reason. 
> 
> WATCH_TASK_FREE is called before critical task structures like
> the mm_struct become inaccessible and the task is subsequently freed.
> 
> The next patch will add a debugfs interface for measuring fork and exit rates
> which can be used to calculate the overhead of the task watcher infrastructure.
> 
> Subsequent patches will make use of task watchers to simplify fork, exit,
> and many of the system calls that set [er][ug]ids.
It's easier to get such watch capabilities by kprobe/systemtap. Why to
add new codes to kernel?