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sched/tracepoints: Move and extend the sched_process_exit() tracepoint
authorAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Wed, 2 Apr 2025 18:09:25 +0000 (11:09 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 4 Apr 2025 08:30:19 +0000 (10:30 +0200)
commit3e816361e94a0e79b1aabf44abec552e9698b196
tree7e6a6013258282d21b55092f933c0fae871f6b79
parenta2cc6ff5ec8f91bc463fd3b0c26b61166a07eb11
sched/tracepoints: Move and extend the sched_process_exit() tracepoint

It is useful to be able to access current->mm at task exit to, say,
record a bunch of VMA information right before the task exits (e.g., for
stack symbolization reasons when dealing with short-lived processes that
exit in the middle of profiling session). Currently,
trace_sched_process_exit() is triggered after exit_mm() which resets
current->mm to NULL making this tracepoint unsuitable for inspecting
and recording task's mm_struct-related data when tracing process
lifetimes.

There is a particularly suitable place, though, right after
taskstats_exit() is called, but before we do exit_mm() and other
exit_*() resource teardowns. taskstats performs a similar kind of
accounting that some applications do with BPF, and so co-locating them
seems like a good fit. So that's where trace_sched_process_exit() is
moved with this patch.

Also, existing trace_sched_process_exit() tracepoint is notoriously
missing `group_dead` flag that is certainly useful in practice and some
of our production applications have to work around this. So plumb
`group_dead` through while at it, to have a richer and more complete
tracepoint.

Note that we can't use sched_process_template anymore, and so we use
TRACE_EVENT()-based tracepoint definition. But all the field names and
order, as well as assign and output logic remain intact. We just add one
extra field at the end in backwards-compatible way.

Document the dependency to sched_process_template anyway.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402180925.90914-1-andrii@kernel.org
include/trace/events/sched.h
kernel/exit.c