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authorLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>2025-08-12 05:58:37 -0700
committerLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>2025-08-12 05:58:37 -0700
commitca994e8922f25f7fed2075098f185cf198109eaa (patch)
treeb400201be96c4ddedc9d864b30da039df32e8df9 /include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
parent30e0c3f43a414616e0b6ca76cf7f7b2cd387e1d4 (diff)
parent8f5ae30d69d7543eee0d70083daf4de8fe15d585 (diff)
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next
Bring v6.17-rc1 to propagate commits from other subsystems, particularly PCI, which has some new functions needed for SR-IOV integration. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
index a15ac2fa4b20..f291ab4f94eb 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
+++ b/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. */