Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: introduce process_reap system call

Florian Weimer
2021-07-08T07:14:09Z

* Suren Baghdasaryan:

> Sending SIGKILL is blocking in terms of delivering the signal, but it
> does not block waiting for SIGKILL to be processed by the signal
> recipient and memory to be released. When I was talking about
> "blocking", I meant that current kill() and friends do not block to
> wait for SIGKILL to be processed.
> process_reap() will block until the memory is released. Whether the
> userspace caller is using it right after sending a SIGKILL to reclaim
> the memory synchronously or spawns a separate thread to reclaim memory
> asynchronously is up to the user. Both patterns are supported.

I see, this makes sense.

Considering that the pidfd sticks around after process_reap returns, the
issue described in bug 154011 probably does not apply to process_reap.
(This relates to asynchronous resource deallocation, as discussed before.)

Thanks,
Florian