git: 0f89380a3d20 - main - kern/proc: expose reaper PID and subtree root in struct kinfo_proc
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:44:22 UTC
The branch main has been updated by kib:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=0f89380a3d208d67698f2d35afd35257e5fdbe09
commit 0f89380a3d208d67698f2d35afd35257e5fdbe09
Author: GenericRikka <rikka.goering@outlook.de>
AuthorDate: 2026-04-20 23:32:49 +0000
Commit: Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-04-21 23:36:07 +0000
kern/proc: expose reaper PID and subtree root in struct kinfo_proc
Expose process reaper metadata through struct kinfo_proc so userland
can reconstruct reaper hierarchies from kern.proc.all without adding
a new procctl(2) operation.
Two pid_t fields are added by carving 8 bytes from ki_sparestrings
(46 -> 38), restoring KI_NSPARE_INT to 2 and keeping sizeof(struct
kinfo_proc) unchanged:
ki_reaper: PID of the owning reaper process
ki_reapsubtree: PID of the direct child of the reaper that roots
the subtree the process belongs to
fill_kinfo_proc_pgrp() populates both fields under proctree_lock.
kvm_proclist() is updated for crash dump consumers. The freebsd32
compat struct and freebsd32_kinfo_proc_out() are updated accordingly.
PR: 293871
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56538
---
lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c | 8 ++++++++
sys/compat/freebsd32/freebsd32.h | 4 +++-
sys/kern/kern_proc.c | 4 ++++
sys/sys/user.h | 4 +++-
4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c b/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c
index fed483978e62..a952888c9ef0 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ kvm_proclist(kvm_t *kd, int what, int arg, struct proc *p,
struct thread mtd;
struct proc proc;
struct proc pproc;
+ struct proc rproc;
struct sysentvec sysent;
char svname[KI_EMULNAMELEN];
struct thread *td = NULL;
@@ -365,6 +366,13 @@ nopgrp:
kp->ki_xstat = KW_EXITCODE(proc.p_xexit, proc.p_xsig);
kp->ki_acflag = proc.p_acflag;
kp->ki_lock = proc.p_lock;
+ if (KREAD(kd, (u_long)proc.p_reaper, &rproc)) {
+ _kvm_err(kd, kd->program,
+ "can't read reaper at %p", proc.p_reaper);
+ return (-1);
+ }
+ kp->ki_reaper = rproc.p_pid;
+ kp->ki_reapsubtree = proc.p_reapsubtree;
kp->ki_tdev_freebsd11 = kp->ki_tdev; /* truncate */
/* Per-thread items; iterate as appropriate. */
diff --git a/sys/compat/freebsd32/freebsd32.h b/sys/compat/freebsd32/freebsd32.h
index 1436b630689f..3f5b93859f5c 100644
--- a/sys/compat/freebsd32/freebsd32.h
+++ b/sys/compat/freebsd32/freebsd32.h
@@ -392,8 +392,10 @@ struct kinfo_proc32 {
char ki_emul[KI_EMULNAMELEN+1];
char ki_loginclass[LOGINCLASSLEN+1];
char ki_moretdname[MAXCOMLEN-TDNAMLEN+1];
- char ki_sparestrings[46];
+ char ki_sparestrings[38];
int ki_spareints[KI_NSPARE_INT];
+ pid_t ki_reaper;
+ pid_t ki_reapsubtree;
freebsd32_uint64_t ki_tdev;
int ki_oncpu;
int ki_lastcpu;
diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_proc.c b/sys/kern/kern_proc.c
index 1f9e39a0dda3..a88ed6902f3a 100644
--- a/sys/kern/kern_proc.c
+++ b/sys/kern/kern_proc.c
@@ -1235,6 +1235,8 @@ fill_kinfo_proc_pgrp(struct proc *p, struct kinfo_proc *kp)
kp->ki_tdev = NODEV;
kp->ki_tdev_freebsd11 = kp->ki_tdev; /* truncate */
}
+ kp->ki_reaper = p->p_reaper->p_pid;
+ kp->ki_reapsubtree = p->p_reapsubtree;
}
/*
@@ -1494,6 +1496,8 @@ freebsd32_kinfo_proc_out(const struct kinfo_proc *ki, struct kinfo_proc32 *ki32)
CP(*ki, *ki32, ki_fibnum);
CP(*ki, *ki32, ki_cr_flags);
CP(*ki, *ki32, ki_jid);
+ CP(*ki, *ki32, ki_reaper);
+ CP(*ki, *ki32, ki_reapsubtree);
CP(*ki, *ki32, ki_numthreads);
CP(*ki, *ki32, ki_tid);
CP(*ki, *ki32, ki_pri);
diff --git a/sys/sys/user.h b/sys/sys/user.h
index 59210913f889..e1a3897cd319 100644
--- a/sys/sys/user.h
+++ b/sys/sys/user.h
@@ -186,8 +186,10 @@ struct kinfo_proc {
* front of ki_sparestrings, and ints from the end of ki_spareints.
* That way the spare room from both arrays will remain contiguous.
*/
- char ki_sparestrings[46]; /* spare string space */
+ char ki_sparestrings[38]; /* spare string space */
int ki_spareints[KI_NSPARE_INT]; /* spare room for growth */
+ pid_t ki_reaper; /* pid of reaper process */
+ pid_t ki_reapsubtree; /* reaper subtree id */
uint64_t ki_tdev; /* controlling tty dev */
int ki_oncpu; /* Which cpu we are on */
int ki_lastcpu; /* Last cpu we were on */