[PATCH 09/14] tools headers: Sync uapi/linux/fcntl.h with the kernel source

Namhyung Kim namhyung at kernel.org
Tue Aug 19 03:32:18 AEST 2025


To pick up the changes in this cset:

  3941e37f62fe2c3c uapi/fcntl: add FD_PIDFS_ROOT
  cd5d2006327b6d84 uapi/fcntl: add FD_INVALID
  67fcec2919e4ed31 fcntl/pidfd: redefine PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP
  a4c746f06853f91d uapi/fcntl: mark range as reserved

This addresses these perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h

Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.

Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
---
 .../trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h    | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
index a15ac2fa4b20..f291ab4f94eb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
+++ b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
@@ -90,10 +90,28 @@
 #define DN_ATTRIB	0x00000020	/* File changed attibutes */
 #define DN_MULTISHOT	0x80000000	/* Don't remove notifier */
 
+/* Reserved kernel ranges [-100], [-10000, -40000]. */
 #define AT_FDCWD		-100    /* Special value for dirfd used to
 					   indicate openat should use the
 					   current working directory. */
 
+/*
+ * The concept of process and threads in userland and the kernel is a confusing
+ * one - within the kernel every thread is a 'task' with its own individual PID,
+ * however from userland's point of view threads are grouped by a single PID,
+ * which is that of the 'thread group leader', typically the first thread
+ * spawned.
+ *
+ * To cut the Gideon knot, for internal kernel usage, we refer to
+ * PIDFD_SELF_THREAD to refer to the current thread (or task from a kernel
+ * perspective), and PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP to refer to the current thread
+ * group leader...
+ */
+#define PIDFD_SELF_THREAD		-10000 /* Current thread. */
+#define PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP		-10001 /* Current thread group leader. */
+
+#define FD_PIDFS_ROOT			-10002 /* Root of the pidfs filesystem */
+#define FD_INVALID			-10009 /* Invalid file descriptor: -10000 - EBADF = -10009 */
 
 /* Generic flags for the *at(2) family of syscalls. */
 
-- 
2.25.1




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