[v3] selftests/powerpc: Kill child processes on SIGINT

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Mon Aug 13 21:23:11 AEST 2018


On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 14:15:39 UTC, Breno Leitao wrote:
> There are some powerpc selftests, as tm/tm-unavailable, that run for a long
> period (>120 seconds), and if it is interrupted, as pressing CRTL-C
> (SIGINT), the foreground process (harness) dies but the child process and
> threads continue to execute (with PPID = 1 now) in background.
> 
> In this case, you'd think the whole test exited, but there are remaining
> threads and processes being executed in background. Sometimes these
> zombies processes are doing annoying things, as consuming the whole CPU or
> dumping things to STDOUT.
> 
> This patch fixes this problem by attaching an empty signal handler to
> SIGINT in the harness process. This handler will interrupt (EINTR) the
> parent process waitpid() call, letting the code to follow through the
> normal flow, which will kill all the processes in the child process group.
> 
> This patch also fixes a typo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7c27a26e1ed5a7dd709aa19685d2c9

cheers


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