llkd: add live-lock daemon

Introduce a standalone live-lock daemon (llkd), to catch kernel
or native user space deadlocks and take mitigating actions.  Will
also configure [khungtaskd] to fortify the actions.

If a thread is in D or Z state with no forward progress for longer
than ro.llk.timeout_ms, or ro.llk.[D|Z].timeout_ms, kill the process
or parent process respectively.  If another scan shows the same
process continues to exist, then have a confirmed live-lock condition
and need to panic.  Panic the kernel in a manner to provide the
greatest bugreporting details as to the condition.  Add a alarm self
watchdog should llkd ever get locked up that is double the expected
time to flow through the mainloop.  Sampling is every
ro.llk_sample_ms.

Default will not monitor init, or [kthreadd] and all that [kthreadd]
spawns.  This reduces the effectiveness of llkd by limiting its
coverage.  If in the future, if value in covering kthreadd spawned
threads, the requirement will be to code drivers so that they do not
remain in a persistent 'D' state, or that they have mechanisms to
recover the thread should it be killed externally.  Then the
blacklists can be adjusted accordingly if these conditions are met.

An accompanying gTest set have been added, and will setup a persistent
D or Z process, with and without forward progress, but not in a
live-lock state because that would require a buggy kernel, or a module
or kernel modification to stimulate.

Android Properties llkd respond to (*_ms parms are in milliseconds):
- ro.config.low_ram default false, if true do not sysrq t (dump
  all threads).
- ro.llk.enable default false, allow live-lock daemon to be enabled.
- ro.khungtask.enable default false, allow [khungtaskd] to be enabled.
- ro.llk.mlockall default true, allow mlock'd live-lock daemon.
- ro.khungtask.timeout default 12 minutes.
- ro.llk.timeout_ms default 10 minutes, D or Z maximum timelimit,
  double this value and it sets the alarm watchdog for llkd.
- ro.llk.D.timeout_ms default ro.llk.timeout_ms, D maximum timelimit.
- ro.llk.Z.timeout_ms default ro.llk.timeout_ms, Z maximum timelimit.
- ro.llk.check_ms default 2 minutes sampling interval
  (ro.llk.timeout_ms / 5) for threads in D or Z state.
- ro.llk.blacklist.process default 0,1,2 (kernel, init and
  [kthreadd]), and process names (/comm or /cmdline) init,[kthreadd],
  lmkd,lmkd.llkd,llkd,[khungtaskd],watchdogd,[watchdogd],
  [watchdogd/0] ...
- ro.llk.blacklist.parent default 0,2 (kernel and [kthreadd]) and
  "[kthreadd]".  A comma separated lists of process ids, /comm names
  or /cmdline names.
- ro.llk.blacklist.uid default <empty>, comma separated list of
  uid numbers or names from getpwuid/getpwnam.

Test: llkd_unit_test
Bug: 33808187
Bug: 72838192
Change-Id: I32e8aa78aef10834e093265d0f3ed5b4199807c6
diff --git a/libcutils/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h b/libcutils/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h
index 8209167..3be8ad0 100644
--- a/libcutils/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h
+++ b/libcutils/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
 #define AID_INCIDENTD 1067       /* incidentd daemon */
 #define AID_SECURE_ELEMENT 1068  /* secure element subsystem */
 #define AID_LMKD 1069            /* low memory killer daemon */
+#define AID_LLKD 1070            /* live lock daemon */
 /* Changes to this file must be made in AOSP, *not* in internal branches. */
 
 #define AID_SHELL 2000 /* adb and debug shell user */
diff --git a/llkd/Android.bp b/llkd/Android.bp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6edd26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llkd/Android.bp
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+cc_library_headers {
+    name: "llkd_headers",
+
+    export_include_dirs: ["include"],
+}
+
+cc_library_static {
+    name: "libllkd",
+
+    srcs: [
+        "libllkd.cpp",
+    ],
+
+    shared_libs: [
+        "libbase",
+        "libcutils",
+        "liblog",
+    ],
+
+    export_include_dirs: ["include"],
+
+    cflags: ["-Werror"],
+}
+
+cc_binary {
+    name: "llkd",
+
+    srcs: [
+        "llkd.cpp",
+    ],
+    shared_libs: [
+        "libbase",
+        "libcutils",
+        "liblog",
+    ],
+    static_libs: [
+        "libllkd",
+    ],
+    cflags: ["-Werror"],
+
+    init_rc: ["llkd.rc"],
+}
diff --git a/llkd/OWNERS b/llkd/OWNERS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6af537
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llkd/OWNERS
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+salyzyn@google.com
+surenb@google.com
diff --git a/llkd/README.md b/llkd/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..146a998
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llkd/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+Android Live-LocK Daemon
+========================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Android Live-LocK Daemon (llkd) is used to catch kernel deadlocks and mitigate.
+
+Code is structured to allow integration into another service as either as part
+of the main loop, or spun off as a thread should that be necessary.  A default
+standalone implementation is provided by llkd component.
+
+The 'C' interface from libllkd component is thus:
+
+    #include "llkd.h"
+    bool llkInit(const char* threadname) /* return true if enabled */
+    unsigned llkCheckMillseconds(void)   /* ms to sleep for next check */
+
+If a threadname is provided, a thread will be automatically spawned, otherwise
+caller must call llkCheckMilliseconds in its main loop.  Function will return
+the period of time before the next expected call to this handler.
+
+Operations
+----------
+
+If a thread is in D or Z state with no forward progress for longer than
+ro.llk.timeout_ms, or ro.llk.[D|Z].timeout_ms, kill the process or parent
+process respectively.  If another scan shows the same process continues to
+exist, then have a confirmed live-lock condition and need to panic.  Panic
+the kernel in a manner to provide the greatest bugreporting details as to the
+condition.  Add a alarm self watchdog should llkd ever get locked up that is
+double the expected time to flow through the mainloop.  Sampling is every
+ro.llk_sample_ms.
+
+Default will not monitor init, or [kthreadd] and all that [kthreadd] spawns.
+This reduces the effectiveness of llkd by limiting its coverage.  If there is
+value in covering [kthreadd] spawned threads, the requirement will be that
+the drivers not remain in a persistent 'D' state, or that they have mechanisms
+to recover the thread should it be killed externally (this is good driver
+coding hygiene, a common request to add such to publicly reviewed kernel.org
+maintained drivers).  For instance use wait_event_interruptible() instead of
+wait_event().  The blacklists can be adjusted accordingly if these
+conditions are met to cover kernel components.
+
+An accompanying gTest set have been added, and will setup a persistent D or Z
+process, with and without forward progress, but not in a live-lock state
+because that would require a buggy kernel, or a module or kernel modification
+to stimulate.  The test will check that llkd will mitigate first by killing
+the appropriate process.  D state is setup by vfork() waiting for exec() in
+child process.  Z state is setup by fork() and an un-waited for child process.
+Should be noted that both of these conditions should never happen on Android
+on purpose, and llkd effectively sweeps up processes that create these
+conditions.  If the test can, it will reconfigure llkd to expedite the test
+duration by adjusting the ro.llk.* Android properties.  Tests run the D state
+with some scheduling progress to ensure that ABA checking prevents false
+triggers.
+
+Android Properties
+------------------
+
+Android Properties llkd respond to (<prop>_ms parms are in milliseconds):
+
+#### ro.config.low_ram
+default false, if true do not sysrq t (dump all threads).
+
+#### ro.llk.enable
+default false, allow live-lock daemon to be enabled.
+
+#### ro.khungtask.enable
+default false, allow [khungtask] daemon to be enabled.
+
+#### ro.llk.mlockall
+default false, enable call to mlockall().
+
+#### ro.khungtask.timeout
+default value 12 minutes, [khungtask] maximum timelimit.
+
+#### ro.llk.timeout_ms
+default 10 minutes, D or Z maximum timelimit, double this value and it sets
+the alarm watchdog for llkd.
+
+#### ro.llk.D.timeout_ms
+default ro.llk.timeout_ms, D maximum timelimit.
+
+#### ro.llk.Z.timeout_ms
+default ro.llk.timeout_ms, Z maximum timelimit.
+
+#### ro.llk.check_ms
+default 2 minutes samples of threads for D or Z.
+
+#### ro.llk.blacklist.process
+default 0,1,2 (kernel, init and [kthreadd]) plus process names
+init,[kthreadd],[khungtaskd],lmkd,lmkd.llkd,llkd,watchdogd,
+[watchdogd],[watchdogd/0],...,[watchdogd/<get_nprocs-1>].
+
+#### ro.llk.blacklist.parent
+default 0,2 (kernel and [kthreadd]).
+
+#### ro.llk.blacklist.uid
+default <empty>, comma separated list of uid numbers or names.
+
+Architectural Concerns
+----------------------
+
+- Figure out how to communicate the kernel panic better to bootstat canonical
+  boot reason determination.  This may require an alteration to bootstat, or
+  some logging from llkd.  Would like to see boot reason to be
+  watchdog,livelock as a minimum requirement.  Or more specifically would want
+  watchdog,livelock,device or watchdog,livelock,zombie be reported.
+  Currently reports panic,sysrq (user requested panic) or panic depending on
+  system support of pstore.
+- Create kernel module and associated gTest to actually test panic.
+- Create gTest to test out blacklist (ro.llk.blacklist.<properties> generally
+  not be inputs).  Could require more test-only interfaces to libllkd.
+- Speed up gTest using something else than ro.llk.<properties>, which should
+  not be inputs.
diff --git a/llkd/include/llkd.h b/llkd/include/llkd.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ae28ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llkd/include/llkd.h
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LLKD_H_
+#define _LLKD_H_
+
+#ifndef LOG_TAG
+#define LOG_TAG "livelock"
+#endif
+
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <sys/cdefs.h>
+
+__BEGIN_DECLS
+
+bool llkInit(const char* threadname); /* threadname NULL, not spawned */
+unsigned llkCheckMilliseconds(void);
+
+/* clang-format off */
+#define LLK_ENABLE_PROPERTY            "ro.llk.enable"
+#define LLK_ENABLE_DEFAULT             false
+#define KHT_ENABLE_PROPERTY            "ro.khungtask.enable"
+#define LLK_MLOCKALL_PROPERTY          "ro.llk.mlockall"
+#define LLK_MLOCKALL_DEFAULT           true
+#define LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY        "ro.llk.timeout_ms"
+#define KHT_TIMEOUT_PROPERTY           "ro.khungtask.timeout"
+#define LLK_D_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY      "ro.llk.D.timeout_ms"
+#define LLK_Z_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY      "ro.llk.Z.timeout_ms"
+#define LLK_CHECK_MS_PROPERTY          "ro.llk.check_ms"
+/* LLK_CHECK_MS_DEFAULT = actual timeout_ms / LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT */
+#define LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT 5
+#define LLK_BLACKLIST_PROCESS_PROPERTY "ro.llk.blacklist.process"
+#define LLK_BLACKLIST_PROCESS_DEFAULT  \
+    "0,1,2,init,[kthreadd],[khungtaskd],lmkd,lmkd.llkd,llkd,watchdogd,[watchdogd],[watchdogd/0]"
+#define LLK_BLACKLIST_PARENT_PROPERTY  "ro.llk.blacklist.parent"
+#define LLK_BLACKLIST_PARENT_DEFAULT   "0,2,[kthreadd]"
+#define LLK_BLACKLIST_UID_PROPERTY     "ro.llk.blacklist.uid"
+#define LLK_BLACKLIST_UID_DEFAULT      ""
+/* clang-format on */
+
+__END_DECLS
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C++" { /* In case this included wrapped with __BEGIN_DECLS */
+
+#include <chrono>
+
+__BEGIN_DECLS
+/* C++ code allowed to not specify threadname argument for this C linkage */
+bool llkInit(const char* threadname = nullptr);
+__END_DECLS
+std::chrono::milliseconds llkCheck(bool checkRunning = false);
+
+/* clang-format off */
+#define LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_DEFAULT  std::chrono::duration_cast<milliseconds>(std::chrono::minutes(10))
+#define LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_MINIMUM  std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(std::chrono::seconds(10))
+#define LLK_CHECK_MS_MINIMUM    std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(std::chrono::seconds(1))
+/* clang-format on */
+
+} /* extern "C++" */
+#endif /* __cplusplus */
+
+#endif /* _LLKD_H_ */
diff --git a/llkd/libllkd.cpp b/llkd/libllkd.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b25eb06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llkd/libllkd.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,1159 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include "llkd.h"
+
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <dirent.h>  // opendir() and readdir()
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+#include <pwd.h>  // getpwuid()
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <sys/cdefs.h>  // ___STRING, __predict_true() and _predict_false()
+#include <sys/mman.h>   // mlockall()
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>     // lstat()
+#include <sys/syscall.h>  // __NR_getdents64
+#include <sys/sysinfo.h>  // get_nprocs_conf()
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include <chrono>
+#include <ios>
+#include <sstream>
+#include <string>
+#include <unordered_map>
+#include <unordered_set>
+
+#include <android-base/file.h>
+#include <android-base/logging.h>
+#include <android-base/parseint.h>
+#include <android-base/properties.h>
+#include <android-base/strings.h>
+#include <cutils/android_get_control_file.h>
+#include <log/log_main.h>
+
+#define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof(*(x)))
+
+#define TASK_COMM_LEN 16  // internal kernel, not uapi, from .../linux/include/linux/sched.h
+
+using namespace std::chrono_literals;
+using namespace std::chrono;
+
+namespace {
+
+constexpr pid_t kernelPid = 0;
+constexpr pid_t initPid = 1;
+constexpr pid_t kthreaddPid = 2;
+
+constexpr char procdir[] = "/proc/";
+
+// Configuration
+milliseconds llkUpdate;                              // last check ms signature
+milliseconds llkCycle;                               // ms to next thread check
+bool llkEnable = LLK_ENABLE_DEFAULT;                 // llk daemon enabled
+bool llkRunning = false;                             // thread is running
+bool llkMlockall = LLK_MLOCKALL_DEFAULT;             // run mlocked
+milliseconds llkTimeoutMs = LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_DEFAULT;  // default timeout
+enum { llkStateD, llkStateZ, llkNumStates };         // state indexes
+milliseconds llkStateTimeoutMs[llkNumStates];        // timeout override for each detection state
+milliseconds llkCheckMs;                             // checking interval to inspect any
+                                                     // persistent live-locked states
+bool llkLowRam;                                      // ro.config.low_ram
+bool khtEnable = LLK_ENABLE_DEFAULT;                 // [khungtaskd] panic
+// [khungtaskd] should have a timeout beyond the granularity of llkTimeoutMs.
+// Provides a wide angle of margin b/c khtTimeout is also its granularity.
+seconds khtTimeout = duration_cast<seconds>(llkTimeoutMs * (1 + LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT) /
+                                            LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT);
+
+// Blacklist variables, initialized with comma separated lists of high false
+// positive and/or dangerous references, e.g. without self restart, for pid,
+// ppid, name and uid:
+
+// list of pids, or tids or names to skip. kernel pid (0), init pid (1),
+// [kthreadd] pid (2), ourselves, "init", "[kthreadd]", "lmkd", "llkd" or
+// combinations of watchdogd in kernel and user space.
+std::unordered_set<std::string> llkBlacklistProcess;
+// list of parent pids, comm or cmdline names to skip. default:
+// kernel pid (0), [kthreadd] (2), or ourselves, enforced and implied
+std::unordered_set<std::string> llkBlacklistParent;
+// list of uids, and uid names, to skip, default nothing
+std::unordered_set<std::string> llkBlacklistUid;
+
+class dir {
+  public:
+    enum level { proc, task, numLevels };
+
+  private:
+    int fd;
+    size_t available_bytes;
+    dirent* next;
+    // each directory level picked to be just north of 4K in size
+    static constexpr size_t buffEntries = 15;
+    static dirent buff[numLevels][buffEntries];
+
+    bool fill(enum level index) {
+        if (index >= numLevels) return false;
+        if (available_bytes != 0) return true;
+        if (__predict_false(fd < 0)) return false;
+        // getdents64 has no libc wrapper
+        auto rc = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(syscall(__NR_getdents64, fd, buff[index], sizeof(buff[0]), 0));
+        if (rc <= 0) return false;
+        available_bytes = rc;
+        next = buff[index];
+        return true;
+    }
+
+  public:
+    dir() : fd(-1), available_bytes(0), next(nullptr) {}
+
+    explicit dir(const char* directory)
+        : fd(__predict_true(directory != nullptr)
+                 ? ::open(directory, O_CLOEXEC | O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY)
+                 : -1),
+          available_bytes(0),
+          next(nullptr) {}
+
+    explicit dir(const std::string&& directory)
+        : fd(::open(directory.c_str(), O_CLOEXEC | O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY)),
+          available_bytes(0),
+          next(nullptr) {}
+
+    explicit dir(const std::string& directory)
+        : fd(::open(directory.c_str(), O_CLOEXEC | O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY)),
+          available_bytes(0),
+          next(nullptr) {}
+
+    // Don't need any copy or move constructors.
+    explicit dir(const dir& c) = delete;
+    explicit dir(dir& c) = delete;
+    explicit dir(dir&& c) = delete;
+
+    ~dir() {
+        if (fd >= 0) {
+            ::close(fd);
+        }
+    }
+
+    operator bool() const { return fd >= 0; }
+
+    void reset(void) {
+        if (fd >= 0) {
+            ::close(fd);
+            fd = -1;
+            available_bytes = 0;
+            next = nullptr;
+        }
+    }
+
+    dir& reset(const char* directory) {
+        reset();
+        // available_bytes will _always_ be zero here as its value is
+        // intimately tied to fd < 0 or not.
+        fd = ::open(directory, O_CLOEXEC | O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY);
+        return *this;
+    }
+
+    void rewind(void) {
+        if (fd >= 0) {
+            ::lseek(fd, off_t(0), SEEK_SET);
+            available_bytes = 0;
+            next = nullptr;
+        }
+    }
+
+    dirent* read(enum level index = proc, dirent* def = nullptr) {
+        if (!fill(index)) return def;
+        auto ret = next;
+        available_bytes -= next->d_reclen;
+        next = reinterpret_cast<dirent*>(reinterpret_cast<char*>(next) + next->d_reclen);
+        return ret;
+    }
+} llkTopDirectory;
+
+dirent dir::buff[dir::numLevels][dir::buffEntries];
+
+// helper functions
+
+bool llkIsMissingExeLink(pid_t tid) {
+    char c;
+    // CAP_SYS_PTRACE is required to prevent ret == -1, but ENOENT is signal
+    auto ret = ::readlink((procdir + std::to_string(tid) + "/exe").c_str(), &c, sizeof(c));
+    return (ret == -1) && (errno == ENOENT);
+}
+
+// Common routine where caller accepts empty content as error/passthrough.
+// Reduces the churn of reporting read errors in the callers.
+std::string ReadFile(std::string&& path) {
+    std::string content;
+    if (!android::base::ReadFileToString(path, &content)) {
+        PLOG(DEBUG) << "Read " << path << " failed";
+        content = "";
+    }
+    return content;
+}
+
+std::string llkProcGetName(pid_t tid, const char* node = "/cmdline") {
+    std::string content = ReadFile(procdir + std::to_string(tid) + node);
+    static constexpr char needles[] = " \t\r\n";  // including trailing nul
+    auto pos = content.find_first_of(needles, 0, sizeof(needles));
+    if (pos != std::string::npos) {
+        content.erase(pos);
+    }
+    return content;
+}
+
+uid_t llkProcGetUid(pid_t tid) {
+    // Get the process' uid.  The following read from /status is admittedly
+    // racy, prone to corruption due to shape-changes.  The consequences are
+    // not catastrophic as we sample a few times before taking action.
+    //
+    // If /loginuid worked on reliably, or on Android (all tasks report -1)...
+    // Android lmkd causes /cgroup to contain memory:/<dom>/uid_<uid>/pid_<pid>
+    // which is tighter, but also not reliable.
+    std::string content = ReadFile(procdir + std::to_string(tid) + "/status");
+    static constexpr char Uid[] = "\nUid:";
+    auto pos = content.find(Uid);
+    if (pos == std::string::npos) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+    pos += ::strlen(Uid);
+    while ((pos < content.size()) && ::isblank(content[pos])) {
+        ++pos;
+    }
+    content.erase(0, pos);
+    for (pos = 0; (pos < content.size()) && ::isdigit(content[pos]); ++pos) {
+        ;
+    }
+    // Content of form 'Uid:	0	0	0	0', newline is error
+    if ((pos >= content.size()) || !::isblank(content[pos])) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+    content.erase(pos);
+    uid_t ret;
+    if (!android::base::ParseInt(content, &ret, uid_t(0))) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+    return ret;
+}
+
+struct proc {
+    pid_t tid;                     // monitored thread id (in Z or D state).
+    nanoseconds schedUpdate;       // /proc/<tid>/sched "se.avg.lastUpdateTime",
+    uint64_t nrSwitches;           // /proc/<tid>/sched "nr_switches" for
+                                   // refined ABA problem detection, determine
+                                   // forward scheduling progress.
+    milliseconds update;           // llkUpdate millisecond signature of last.
+    milliseconds count;            // duration in state.
+    pid_t pid;                     // /proc/<pid> before iterating through
+                                   // /proc/<pid>/task/<tid> for threads.
+    pid_t ppid;                    // /proc/<tid>/stat field 4 parent pid.
+    uid_t uid;                     // /proc/<tid>/status Uid: field.
+    unsigned time;                 // sum of /proc/<tid>/stat field 14 utime &
+                                   // 15 stime for coarse ABA problem detection.
+    std::string cmdline;           // cached /cmdline content
+    char state;                    // /proc/<tid>/stat field 3: Z or D
+                                   // (others we do not monitor: S, R, T or ?)
+    char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN + 3];  // space for adding '[' and ']'
+    bool exeMissingValid;          // exeMissing has been cached
+    bool cmdlineValid;             // cmdline has been cached
+    bool updated;                  // cleared before monitoring pass.
+    bool killed;                   // sent a kill to this thread, next panic...
+
+    void setComm(const char* _comm) { strncpy(comm + 1, _comm, sizeof(comm) - 2); }
+
+    proc(pid_t tid, pid_t pid, pid_t ppid, const char* _comm, int time, char state)
+        : tid(tid),
+          schedUpdate(0),
+          nrSwitches(0),
+          update(llkUpdate),
+          count(0),
+          pid(pid),
+          ppid(ppid),
+          uid(-1),
+          time(time),
+          state(state),
+          exeMissingValid(false),
+          cmdlineValid(false),
+          updated(true),
+          killed(false) {
+        memset(comm, '\0', sizeof(comm));
+        setComm(_comm);
+    }
+
+    const char* getComm(void) {
+        if (comm[1] == '\0') {  // comm Valid?
+            strncpy(comm + 1, llkProcGetName(tid, "/comm").c_str(), sizeof(comm) - 2);
+        }
+        if (!exeMissingValid) {
+            if (llkIsMissingExeLink(tid)) {
+                comm[0] = '[';
+            }
+            exeMissingValid = true;
+        }
+        size_t len = strlen(comm + 1);
+        if (__predict_true(len < (sizeof(comm) - 1))) {
+            if (comm[0] == '[') {
+                if ((comm[len] != ']') && __predict_true(len < (sizeof(comm) - 2))) {
+                    comm[++len] = ']';
+                    comm[++len] = '\0';
+                }
+            } else {
+                if (comm[len] == ']') {
+                    comm[len] = '\0';
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return &comm[comm[0] != '['];
+    }
+
+    const char* getCmdline(void) {
+        if (!cmdlineValid) {
+            cmdline = llkProcGetName(tid);
+            cmdlineValid = true;
+        }
+        return cmdline.c_str();
+    }
+
+    uid_t getUid(void) {
+        if (uid <= 0) {  // Churn on root user, because most likely to setuid()
+            uid = llkProcGetUid(tid);
+        }
+        return uid;
+    }
+
+    void reset(void) {  // reset cache, if we detected pid rollover
+        uid = -1;
+        state = '?';
+        cmdline = "";
+        comm[0] = '\0';
+        exeMissingValid = false;
+        cmdlineValid = false;
+    }
+};
+
+std::unordered_map<pid_t, proc> tids;
+
+// Check range and setup defaults, in order of propagation:
+//     llkTimeoutMs
+//     llkCheckMs
+//     ...
+// KISS to keep it all self-contained, and called multiple times as parameters
+// are interpreted so that defaults, llkCheckMs and llkCycle make sense.
+void llkValidate() {
+    if (llkTimeoutMs == 0ms) {
+        llkTimeoutMs = LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_DEFAULT;
+    }
+    llkTimeoutMs = std::max(llkTimeoutMs, LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_MINIMUM);
+    if (llkCheckMs == 0ms) {
+        llkCheckMs = llkTimeoutMs / LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT;
+    }
+    llkCheckMs = std::min(llkCheckMs, llkTimeoutMs);
+
+    for (size_t state = 0; state < ARRAY_SIZE(llkStateTimeoutMs); ++state) {
+        if (llkStateTimeoutMs[state] == 0ms) {
+            llkStateTimeoutMs[state] = llkTimeoutMs;
+        }
+        llkStateTimeoutMs[state] =
+            std::min(std::max(llkStateTimeoutMs[state], LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_MINIMUM), llkTimeoutMs);
+        llkCheckMs = std::min(llkCheckMs, llkStateTimeoutMs[state]);
+    }
+
+    llkCheckMs = std::max(llkCheckMs, LLK_CHECK_MS_MINIMUM);
+    if (llkCycle == 0ms) {
+        llkCycle = llkCheckMs;
+    }
+    llkCycle = std::min(llkCycle, llkCheckMs);
+}
+
+milliseconds llkGetTimespecDiffMs(timespec* from, timespec* to) {
+    return duration_cast<milliseconds>(seconds(to->tv_sec - from->tv_sec)) +
+           duration_cast<milliseconds>(nanoseconds(to->tv_nsec - from->tv_nsec));
+}
+
+std::string llkProcGetName(pid_t tid, const char* comm, const char* cmdline) {
+    if ((cmdline != nullptr) && (*cmdline != '\0')) {
+        return cmdline;
+    }
+    if ((comm != nullptr) && (*comm != '\0')) {
+        return comm;
+    }
+
+    // UNLIKELY! Here because killed before we kill it?
+    // Assume change is afoot, do not call llkTidAlloc
+
+    // cmdline ?
+    std::string content = llkProcGetName(tid);
+    if (content.size() != 0) {
+        return content;
+    }
+    // Comm instead?
+    content = llkProcGetName(tid, "/comm");
+    if (llkIsMissingExeLink(tid) && (content.size() != 0)) {
+        return '[' + content + ']';
+    }
+    return content;
+}
+
+int llkKillOneProcess(pid_t pid, char state, pid_t tid, const char* tcomm = nullptr,
+                      const char* tcmdline = nullptr, const char* pcomm = nullptr,
+                      const char* pcmdline = nullptr) {
+    std::string forTid;
+    if (tid != pid) {
+        forTid = " for '" + llkProcGetName(tid, tcomm, tcmdline) + "' (" + std::to_string(tid) + ")";
+    }
+    LOG(INFO) << "Killing '" << llkProcGetName(pid, pcomm, pcmdline) << "' (" << pid
+              << ") to check forward scheduling progress in " << state << " state" << forTid;
+    // CAP_KILL required
+    errno = 0;
+    auto r = ::kill(pid, SIGKILL);
+    if (r) {
+        PLOG(ERROR) << "kill(" << pid << ")=" << r << ' ';
+    }
+
+    return r;
+}
+
+// Kill one process
+int llkKillOneProcess(pid_t pid, proc* tprocp) {
+    return llkKillOneProcess(pid, tprocp->state, tprocp->tid, tprocp->getComm(),
+                             tprocp->getCmdline());
+}
+
+// Kill one process specified by kprocp
+int llkKillOneProcess(proc* kprocp, proc* tprocp) {
+    if (kprocp == nullptr) {
+        return -2;
+    }
+
+    return llkKillOneProcess(kprocp->tid, tprocp->state, tprocp->tid, tprocp->getComm(),
+                             tprocp->getCmdline(), kprocp->getComm(), kprocp->getCmdline());
+}
+
+// Acquire file descriptor from environment, or open and cache it.
+// NB: cache is unnecessary in our current context, pedantically
+//     required to prevent leakage of file descriptors in the future.
+int llkFileToWriteFd(const std::string& file) {
+    static std::unordered_map<std::string, int> cache;
+    auto search = cache.find(file);
+    if (search != cache.end()) return search->second;
+    auto fd = android_get_control_file(file.c_str());
+    if (fd >= 0) return fd;
+    fd = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(::open(file.c_str(), O_WRONLY | O_CLOEXEC));
+    if (fd >= 0) cache.emplace(std::make_pair(file, fd));
+    return fd;
+}
+
+// Wrap android::base::WriteStringToFile to use android_get_control_file.
+bool llkWriteStringToFile(const std::string& string, const std::string& file) {
+    auto fd = llkFileToWriteFd(file);
+    if (fd < 0) return false;
+    return android::base::WriteStringToFd(string, fd);
+}
+
+bool llkWriteStringToFileConfirm(const std::string& string, const std::string& file) {
+    auto fd = llkFileToWriteFd(file);
+    auto ret = (fd < 0) ? false : android::base::WriteStringToFd(string, fd);
+    std::string content;
+    if (!android::base::ReadFileToString(file, &content)) return ret;
+    return android::base::Trim(content) == string;
+}
+
+void llkPanicKernel(bool dump, pid_t tid) __noreturn;
+void llkPanicKernel(bool dump, pid_t tid) {
+    auto sysrqTriggerFd = llkFileToWriteFd("/proc/sysrq-trigger");
+    if (sysrqTriggerFd < 0) {
+        // DYB
+        llkKillOneProcess(initPid, 'R', tid);
+        // The answer to life, the universe and everything
+        ::exit(42);
+        // NOTREACHED
+    }
+    ::sync();
+    if (dump) {
+        // Show all locks that are held
+        android::base::WriteStringToFd("d", sysrqTriggerFd);
+        // This can trigger hardware watchdog, that is somewhat _ok_.
+        // But useless if pstore configured for <256KB, low ram devices ...
+        if (!llkLowRam) {
+            android::base::WriteStringToFd("t", sysrqTriggerFd);
+        }
+        ::usleep(200000);  // let everything settle
+    }
+    android::base::WriteStringToFd("c", sysrqTriggerFd);
+    // NOTREACHED
+    // DYB
+    llkKillOneProcess(initPid, 'R', tid);
+    // I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'.
+    // I typed it out. End of story
+    ::exit(42);
+    // NOTREACHED
+}
+
+void llkAlarmHandler(int) {
+    llkPanicKernel(false, ::getpid());
+}
+
+milliseconds GetUintProperty(const std::string& key, milliseconds def) {
+    return milliseconds(android::base::GetUintProperty(key, static_cast<uint64_t>(def.count()),
+                                                       static_cast<uint64_t>(def.max().count())));
+}
+
+seconds GetUintProperty(const std::string& key, seconds def) {
+    return seconds(android::base::GetUintProperty(key, static_cast<uint64_t>(def.count()),
+                                                  static_cast<uint64_t>(def.max().count())));
+}
+
+proc* llkTidLookup(pid_t tid) {
+    auto search = tids.find(tid);
+    if (search == tids.end()) {
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+    return &search->second;
+}
+
+void llkTidRemove(pid_t tid) {
+    tids.erase(tid);
+}
+
+proc* llkTidAlloc(pid_t tid, pid_t pid, pid_t ppid, const char* comm, int time, char state) {
+    auto it = tids.emplace(std::make_pair(tid, proc(tid, pid, ppid, comm, time, state)));
+    return &it.first->second;
+}
+
+std::string llkFormat(milliseconds ms) {
+    auto sec = duration_cast<seconds>(ms);
+    std::ostringstream s;
+    s << sec.count() << '.';
+    auto f = s.fill('0');
+    auto w = s.width(3);
+    s << std::right << (ms - sec).count();
+    s.width(w);
+    s.fill(f);
+    s << 's';
+    return s.str();
+}
+
+std::string llkFormat(seconds s) {
+    return std::to_string(s.count()) + 's';
+}
+
+std::string llkFormat(bool flag) {
+    return flag ? "true" : "false";
+}
+
+std::string llkFormat(const std::unordered_set<std::string>& blacklist) {
+    std::string ret;
+    for (auto entry : blacklist) {
+        if (ret.size()) {
+            ret += ",";
+        }
+        ret += entry;
+    }
+    return ret;
+}
+
+// We only officially support comma separators, but wetware being what they
+// are will take some liberty and I do not believe they should be punished.
+std::unordered_set<std::string> llkSplit(const std::string& s,
+                                         const std::string& delimiters = ", \t:") {
+    std::unordered_set<std::string> result;
+
+    size_t base = 0;
+    size_t found;
+    while (true) {
+        found = s.find_first_of(delimiters, base);
+        result.emplace(s.substr(base, found - base));
+        if (found == s.npos) break;
+        base = found + 1;
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
+bool llkSkipName(const std::string& name,
+                 const std::unordered_set<std::string>& blacklist = llkBlacklistProcess) {
+    if ((name.size() == 0) || (blacklist.size() == 0)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    return blacklist.find(name) != blacklist.end();
+}
+
+bool llkSkipPid(pid_t pid) {
+    return llkSkipName(std::to_string(pid), llkBlacklistProcess);
+}
+
+bool llkSkipPpid(pid_t ppid) {
+    return llkSkipName(std::to_string(ppid), llkBlacklistParent);
+}
+
+bool llkSkipUid(uid_t uid) {
+    // Match by number?
+    if (llkSkipName(std::to_string(uid), llkBlacklistUid)) {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    // Match by name?
+    auto pwd = ::getpwuid(uid);
+    return (pwd != nullptr) && __predict_true(pwd->pw_name != nullptr) &&
+           __predict_true(pwd->pw_name[0] != '\0') && llkSkipName(pwd->pw_name, llkBlacklistUid);
+}
+
+bool getValidTidDir(dirent* dp, std::string* piddir) {
+    if (!::isdigit(dp->d_name[0])) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // Corner case can not happen in reality b/c of above ::isdigit check
+    if (__predict_false(dp->d_type != DT_DIR)) {
+        if (__predict_false(dp->d_type == DT_UNKNOWN)) {  // can't b/c procfs
+            struct stat st;
+            *piddir = procdir;
+            *piddir += dp->d_name;
+            return (lstat(piddir->c_str(), &st) == 0) && (st.st_mode & S_IFDIR);
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    *piddir = procdir;
+    *piddir += dp->d_name;
+    return true;
+}
+
+bool llkIsMonitorState(char state) {
+    return (state == 'Z') || (state == 'D');
+}
+
+// returns -1 if not found
+long long getSchedValue(const std::string& schedString, const char* key) {
+    auto pos = schedString.find(key);
+    if (pos == std::string::npos) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+    pos = schedString.find(':', pos);
+    if (__predict_false(pos == std::string::npos)) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+    while ((++pos < schedString.size()) && ::isblank(schedString[pos])) {
+        ;
+    }
+    long long ret;
+    if (!android::base::ParseInt(schedString.substr(pos), &ret, static_cast<long long>(0))) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+    return ret;
+}
+
+// Primary ABA mitigation watching last time schedule activity happened
+void llkCheckSchedUpdate(proc* procp, const std::string& piddir) {
+    // Audit finds /proc/<tid>/sched is just over 1K, and
+    // is rarely larger than 2K, even less on Android.
+    // For example, the "se.avg.lastUpdateTime" field we are
+    // interested in typically within the primary set in
+    // the first 1K.
+    //
+    // Proc entries can not be read >1K atomically via libbase,
+    // but if there are problems we assume at least a few
+    // samples of reads occur before we take any real action.
+    std::string schedString = ReadFile(piddir + "/sched");
+    if (schedString.size() == 0) {
+        // /schedstat is not as standardized, but in 3.1+
+        // Android devices, the third field is nr_switches
+        // from /sched:
+        schedString = ReadFile(piddir + "/schedstat");
+        if (schedString.size() == 0) {
+            return;
+        }
+        auto val = static_cast<unsigned long long>(-1);
+        if (((::sscanf(schedString.c_str(), "%*d %*d %llu", &val)) == 1) &&
+            (val != static_cast<unsigned long long>(-1)) && (val != 0) &&
+            (val != procp->nrSwitches)) {
+            procp->nrSwitches = val;
+            procp->count = 0ms;
+            procp->killed = false;
+        }
+        return;
+    }
+
+    auto val = getSchedValue(schedString, "\nse.avg.lastUpdateTime");
+    if (val == -1) {
+        val = getSchedValue(schedString, "\nse.svg.last_update_time");
+    }
+    if (val != -1) {
+        auto schedUpdate = nanoseconds(val);
+        if (schedUpdate != procp->schedUpdate) {
+            procp->schedUpdate = schedUpdate;
+            procp->count = 0ms;
+            procp->killed = false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    val = getSchedValue(schedString, "\nnr_switches");
+    if (val != -1) {
+        if (static_cast<uint64_t>(val) != procp->nrSwitches) {
+            procp->nrSwitches = val;
+            procp->count = 0ms;
+            procp->killed = false;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+void llkLogConfig(void) {
+    LOG(INFO) << "ro.config.low_ram=" << llkFormat(llkLowRam) << "\n"
+              << LLK_ENABLE_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(llkEnable) << "\n"
+              << KHT_ENABLE_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(khtEnable) << "\n"
+              << LLK_MLOCKALL_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(llkMlockall) << "\n"
+              << KHT_TIMEOUT_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(khtTimeout) << "\n"
+              << LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(llkTimeoutMs) << "\n"
+              << LLK_D_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(llkStateTimeoutMs[llkStateD]) << "\n"
+              << LLK_Z_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(llkStateTimeoutMs[llkStateZ]) << "\n"
+              << LLK_CHECK_MS_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(llkCheckMs) << "\n"
+              << LLK_BLACKLIST_PROCESS_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(llkBlacklistProcess) << "\n"
+              << LLK_BLACKLIST_PARENT_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(llkBlacklistParent) << "\n"
+              << LLK_BLACKLIST_UID_PROPERTY "=" << llkFormat(llkBlacklistUid);
+}
+
+void* llkThread(void* obj) {
+    LOG(INFO) << "started";
+
+    std::string name = std::to_string(::gettid());
+    if (!llkSkipName(name)) {
+        llkBlacklistProcess.emplace(name);
+    }
+    name = static_cast<const char*>(obj);
+    prctl(PR_SET_NAME, name.c_str());
+    if (__predict_false(!llkSkipName(name))) {
+        llkBlacklistProcess.insert(name);
+    }
+    // No longer modifying llkBlacklistProcess.
+    llkRunning = true;
+    llkLogConfig();
+    while (llkRunning) {
+        ::usleep(duration_cast<microseconds>(llkCheck(true)).count());
+    }
+    // NOTREACHED
+    LOG(INFO) << "exiting";
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+}  // namespace
+
+milliseconds llkCheck(bool checkRunning) {
+    if (!llkEnable || (checkRunning != llkRunning)) {
+        return milliseconds::max();
+    }
+
+    // Reset internal watchdog, which is a healthy engineering margin of
+    // double the maximum wait or cycle time for the mainloop that calls us.
+    //
+    // This alarm is effectively the live lock detection of llkd, as
+    // we understandably can not monitor ourselves otherwise.
+    ::alarm(duration_cast<seconds>(llkTimeoutMs * 2).count());
+
+    // kernel jiffy precision fastest acquisition
+    static timespec last;
+    timespec now;
+    ::clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, &now);
+    auto ms = llkGetTimespecDiffMs(&last, &now);
+    if (ms < llkCycle) {
+        return llkCycle - ms;
+    }
+    last = now;
+
+    LOG(VERBOSE) << "opendir(\"" << procdir << "\")";
+    if (__predict_false(!llkTopDirectory)) {
+        // gid containing AID_READPROC required
+        llkTopDirectory.reset(procdir);
+        if (__predict_false(!llkTopDirectory)) {
+            // Most likely reason we could be here is a resource limit.
+            // Keep our processing down to a minimum, but not so low that
+            // we do not recover in a timely manner should the issue be
+            // transitory.
+            LOG(DEBUG) << "opendir(\"" << procdir << "\") failed";
+            return llkTimeoutMs;
+        }
+    }
+
+    for (auto& it : tids) {
+        it.second.updated = false;
+    }
+
+    auto prevUpdate = llkUpdate;
+    llkUpdate += ms;
+    ms -= llkCycle;
+    auto myPid = ::getpid();
+    auto myTid = ::gettid();
+    for (auto dp = llkTopDirectory.read(); dp != nullptr; dp = llkTopDirectory.read()) {
+        std::string piddir;
+
+        if (!getValidTidDir(dp, &piddir)) {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        // Get the process tasks
+        std::string taskdir = piddir + "/task/";
+        int pid = -1;
+        LOG(VERBOSE) << "+opendir(\"" << taskdir << "\")";
+        dir taskDirectory(taskdir);
+        if (__predict_false(!taskDirectory)) {
+            LOG(DEBUG) << "+opendir(\"" << taskdir << "\") failed";
+        }
+        for (auto tp = taskDirectory.read(dir::task, dp); tp != nullptr;
+             tp = taskDirectory.read(dir::task)) {
+            if (!getValidTidDir(tp, &piddir)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            // Get the process stat
+            std::string stat = ReadFile(piddir + "/stat");
+            if (stat.size() == 0) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            unsigned tid = -1;
+            char pdir[TASK_COMM_LEN + 1];
+            char state = '?';
+            unsigned ppid = -1;
+            unsigned utime = -1;
+            unsigned stime = -1;
+            int dummy;
+            pdir[0] = '\0';
+            // tid should not change value
+            auto match = ::sscanf(
+                stat.c_str(),
+                "%u (%" ___STRING(
+                    TASK_COMM_LEN) "[^)]) %c %u %*d %*d %*d %*d %*d %*d %*d %*d %*d %u %u %d",
+                &tid, pdir, &state, &ppid, &utime, &stime, &dummy);
+            if (pid == -1) {
+                pid = tid;
+            }
+            LOG(VERBOSE) << "match " << match << ' ' << tid << " (" << pdir << ") " << state << ' '
+                         << ppid << " ... " << utime << ' ' << stime << ' ' << dummy;
+            if (match != 7) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            auto procp = llkTidLookup(tid);
+            if (procp == nullptr) {
+                procp = llkTidAlloc(tid, pid, ppid, pdir, utime + stime, state);
+            } else {
+                // comm can change ...
+                procp->setComm(pdir);
+                procp->updated = true;
+                // pid/ppid/tid wrap?
+                if (((procp->update != prevUpdate) && (procp->update != llkUpdate)) ||
+                    (procp->ppid != ppid) || (procp->pid != pid)) {
+                    procp->reset();
+                } else if (procp->time != (utime + stime)) {  // secondary ABA.
+                    // watching utime+stime granularity jiffy
+                    procp->state = '?';
+                }
+                procp->update = llkUpdate;
+                procp->pid = pid;
+                procp->ppid = ppid;
+                procp->time = utime + stime;
+                if (procp->state != state) {
+                    procp->count = 0ms;
+                    procp->killed = false;
+                    procp->state = state;
+                } else {
+                    procp->count += llkCycle;
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Filter checks in intuitive order of CPU cost to evaluate
+            // If tid unique continue, if ppid or pid unique break
+
+            if (pid == myPid) {
+                break;
+            }
+            if (!llkIsMonitorState(state)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            if ((tid == myTid) || llkSkipPid(tid)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (llkSkipPpid(ppid)) {
+                break;
+            }
+
+            if (llkSkipName(procp->getComm())) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (llkSkipName(procp->getCmdline())) {
+                break;
+            }
+
+            auto pprocp = llkTidLookup(ppid);
+            if (pprocp == nullptr) {
+                pprocp = llkTidAlloc(ppid, ppid, 0, "", 0, '?');
+            }
+            if ((pprocp != nullptr) && (llkSkipName(pprocp->getComm(), llkBlacklistParent) ||
+                                        llkSkipName(pprocp->getCmdline(), llkBlacklistParent))) {
+                break;
+            }
+
+            if ((llkBlacklistUid.size() != 0) && llkSkipUid(procp->getUid())) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            // ABA mitigation watching last time schedule activity happened
+            llkCheckSchedUpdate(procp, piddir);
+
+            // Can only fall through to here if registered D or Z state !!!
+            if (procp->count < llkStateTimeoutMs[(state == 'Z') ? llkStateZ : llkStateD]) {
+                LOG(VERBOSE) << state << ' ' << llkFormat(procp->count) << ' ' << ppid << "->"
+                             << pid << "->" << tid << ' ' << procp->getComm();
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            // We have to kill it to determine difference between live lock
+            // and persistent state blocked on a resource.  Is there something
+            // wrong with a process that has no forward scheduling progress in
+            // Z or D?  Yes, generally means improper accounting in the
+            // process, but not always ...
+            //
+            // Whomever we hit with a test kill must accept the Android
+            // Aphorism that everything can be burned to the ground and
+            // must survive.
+            if (procp->killed == false) {
+                procp->killed = true;
+                // confirm: re-read uid before committing to a panic.
+                procp->uid = -1;
+                switch (state) {
+                    case 'Z':  // kill ppid to free up a Zombie
+                        // Killing init will kernel panic without diagnostics
+                        // so skip right to controlled kernel panic with
+                        // diagnostics.
+                        if (ppid == initPid) {
+                            break;
+                        }
+                        LOG(WARNING) << "Z " << llkFormat(procp->count) << ' ' << ppid << "->"
+                                     << pid << "->" << tid << ' ' << procp->getComm() << " [kill]";
+                        if ((llkKillOneProcess(pprocp, procp) >= 0) ||
+                            (llkKillOneProcess(ppid, procp) >= 0)) {
+                            continue;
+                        }
+                        break;
+
+                    case 'D':  // kill tid to free up an uninterruptible D
+                        // If ABA is doing its job, we would not need or
+                        // want the following.  Test kill is a Hail Mary
+                        // to make absolutely sure there is no forward
+                        // scheduling progress.  The cost when ABA is
+                        // not working is we kill a process that likes to
+                        // stay in 'D' state, instead of panicing the
+                        // kernel (worse).
+                        LOG(WARNING) << "D " << llkFormat(procp->count) << ' ' << pid << "->" << tid
+                                     << ' ' << procp->getComm() << " [kill]";
+                        if ((llkKillOneProcess(llkTidLookup(pid), procp) >= 0) ||
+                            (llkKillOneProcess(pid, 'D', tid) >= 0) ||
+                            (llkKillOneProcess(procp, procp) >= 0) ||
+                            (llkKillOneProcess(tid, 'D', tid) >= 0)) {
+                            continue;
+                        }
+                        break;
+                }
+            }
+            // We are here because we have confirmed kernel live-lock
+            LOG(ERROR) << state << ' ' << llkFormat(procp->count) << ' ' << ppid << "->" << pid
+                       << "->" << tid << ' ' << procp->getComm() << " [panic]";
+            llkPanicKernel(true, tid);
+        }
+        LOG(VERBOSE) << "+closedir()";
+    }
+    llkTopDirectory.rewind();
+    LOG(VERBOSE) << "closedir()";
+
+    // garbage collection of old process references
+    for (auto p = tids.begin(); p != tids.end();) {
+        if (!p->second.updated) {
+            IF_ALOG(LOG_VERBOSE, LOG_TAG) {
+                std::string ppidCmdline = llkProcGetName(p->second.ppid, nullptr, nullptr);
+                if (ppidCmdline.size()) {
+                    ppidCmdline = "(" + ppidCmdline + ")";
+                }
+                std::string pidCmdline;
+                if (p->second.pid != p->second.tid) {
+                    pidCmdline = llkProcGetName(p->second.pid, nullptr, p->second.getCmdline());
+                    if (pidCmdline.size()) {
+                        pidCmdline = "(" + pidCmdline + ")";
+                    }
+                }
+                std::string tidCmdline =
+                    llkProcGetName(p->second.tid, p->second.getComm(), p->second.getCmdline());
+                if (tidCmdline.size()) {
+                    tidCmdline = "(" + tidCmdline + ")";
+                }
+                LOG(VERBOSE) << "thread " << p->second.ppid << ppidCmdline << "->" << p->second.pid
+                             << pidCmdline << "->" << p->second.tid << tidCmdline << " removed";
+            }
+            p = tids.erase(p);
+        } else {
+            ++p;
+        }
+    }
+    if (__predict_false(tids.empty())) {
+        llkTopDirectory.reset();
+    }
+
+    llkCycle = llkCheckMs;
+
+    timespec end;
+    ::clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, &end);
+    auto milli = llkGetTimespecDiffMs(&now, &end);
+    LOG((milli > 10s) ? ERROR : (milli > 1s) ? WARNING : VERBOSE) << "sample " << llkFormat(milli);
+
+    // cap to minimum sleep for 1 second since last cycle
+    if (llkCycle < (ms + 1s)) {
+        return 1s;
+    }
+    return llkCycle - ms;
+}
+
+unsigned llkCheckMilliseconds() {
+    return duration_cast<milliseconds>(llkCheck()).count();
+}
+
+bool llkInit(const char* threadname) {
+    llkLowRam = android::base::GetBoolProperty("ro.config.low_ram", false);
+    llkEnable = android::base::GetBoolProperty(LLK_ENABLE_PROPERTY, llkEnable);
+    if (llkEnable && !llkTopDirectory.reset(procdir)) {
+        // Most likely reason we could be here is llkd was started
+        // incorrectly without the readproc permissions.  Keep our
+        // processing down to a minimum.
+        llkEnable = false;
+    }
+    khtEnable = android::base::GetBoolProperty(KHT_ENABLE_PROPERTY, khtEnable);
+    llkMlockall = android::base::GetBoolProperty(LLK_MLOCKALL_PROPERTY, llkMlockall);
+    // if LLK_TIMOUT_MS_PROPERTY was not set, we will use a set
+    // KHT_TIMEOUT_PROPERTY as co-operative guidance for the default value.
+    khtTimeout = GetUintProperty(KHT_TIMEOUT_PROPERTY, khtTimeout);
+    if (khtTimeout == 0s) {
+        khtTimeout = duration_cast<seconds>(llkTimeoutMs * (1 + LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT) /
+                                            LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT);
+    }
+    llkTimeoutMs =
+        khtTimeout * LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT / (1 + LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT);
+    llkTimeoutMs = GetUintProperty(LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY, llkTimeoutMs);
+    llkValidate();  // validate llkTimeoutMs, llkCheckMs and llkCycle
+    llkStateTimeoutMs[llkStateD] = GetUintProperty(LLK_D_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY, llkTimeoutMs);
+    llkStateTimeoutMs[llkStateZ] = GetUintProperty(LLK_Z_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY, llkTimeoutMs);
+    llkCheckMs = GetUintProperty(LLK_CHECK_MS_PROPERTY, llkCheckMs);
+    llkValidate();  // validate all (effectively minus llkTimeoutMs)
+    std::string defaultBlacklistProcess(
+        std::to_string(kernelPid) + "," + std::to_string(initPid) + "," +
+        std::to_string(kthreaddPid) + "," + std::to_string(::getpid()) + "," +
+        std::to_string(::gettid()) + "," LLK_BLACKLIST_PROCESS_DEFAULT);
+    if (threadname) {
+        defaultBlacklistProcess += std::string(",") + threadname;
+    }
+    for (int cpu = 1; cpu < get_nprocs_conf(); ++cpu) {
+        defaultBlacklistProcess += ",[watchdog/" + std::to_string(cpu) + "]";
+    }
+    defaultBlacklistProcess =
+        android::base::GetProperty(LLK_BLACKLIST_PROCESS_PROPERTY, defaultBlacklistProcess);
+    llkBlacklistProcess = llkSplit(defaultBlacklistProcess);
+    if (!llkSkipName("[khungtaskd]")) {  // ALWAYS ignore as special
+        llkBlacklistProcess.emplace("[khungtaskd]");
+    }
+    llkBlacklistParent = llkSplit(android::base::GetProperty(
+        LLK_BLACKLIST_PARENT_PROPERTY, std::to_string(kernelPid) + "," + std::to_string(kthreaddPid) +
+                                           "," LLK_BLACKLIST_PARENT_DEFAULT));
+    llkBlacklistUid =
+        llkSplit(android::base::GetProperty(LLK_BLACKLIST_UID_PROPERTY, LLK_BLACKLIST_UID_DEFAULT));
+
+    // internal watchdog
+    ::signal(SIGALRM, llkAlarmHandler);
+
+    // kernel hung task configuration? Otherwise leave it as-is
+    if (khtEnable) {
+        // EUID must be AID_ROOT to write to /proc/sys/kernel/ nodes, there
+        // are no capability overrides.  For security reasons we do not want
+        // to run as AID_ROOT.  We may not be able to write them successfully,
+        // we will try, but the least we can do is read the values back to
+        // confirm expectations and report whether configured or not.
+        auto configured = llkWriteStringToFileConfirm(std::to_string(khtTimeout.count()),
+                                                      "/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs");
+        if (configured) {
+            llkWriteStringToFile("65535", "/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_warnings");
+            llkWriteStringToFile("65535", "/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_check_count");
+            configured = llkWriteStringToFileConfirm("1", "/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_panic");
+        }
+        if (configured) {
+            LOG(INFO) << "[khungtaskd] configured";
+        } else {
+            LOG(WARNING) << "[khungtaskd] not configurable";
+        }
+    }
+
+    bool logConfig = true;
+    if (llkEnable) {
+        if (llkMlockall &&
+            // MCL_ONFAULT pins pages as they fault instead of loading
+            // everything immediately all at once. (Which would be bad,
+            // because as of this writing, we have a lot of mapped pages we
+            // never use.) Old kernels will see MCL_ONFAULT and fail with
+            // EINVAL; we ignore this failure.
+            //
+            // N.B. read the man page for mlockall. MCL_CURRENT | MCL_ONFAULT
+            // pins ⊆ MCL_CURRENT, converging to just MCL_CURRENT as we fault
+            // in pages.
+
+            // CAP_IPC_LOCK required
+            mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE | MCL_ONFAULT) && (errno != EINVAL)) {
+            PLOG(WARNING) << "mlockall failed ";
+        }
+
+        if (threadname) {
+            pthread_attr_t attr;
+
+            if (!pthread_attr_init(&attr)) {
+                sched_param param;
+
+                memset(&param, 0, sizeof(param));
+                pthread_attr_setschedparam(&attr, &param);
+                pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(&attr, SCHED_BATCH);
+                if (!pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attr, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED)) {
+                    pthread_t thread;
+                    if (!pthread_create(&thread, &attr, llkThread, const_cast<char*>(threadname))) {
+                        // wait a second for thread to start
+                        for (auto retry = 50; retry && !llkRunning; --retry) {
+                            ::usleep(20000);
+                        }
+                        logConfig = !llkRunning;  // printed in llkd context?
+                    } else {
+                        LOG(ERROR) << "failed to spawn llkd thread";
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    LOG(ERROR) << "failed to detach llkd thread";
+                }
+                pthread_attr_destroy(&attr);
+            } else {
+                LOG(ERROR) << "failed to allocate attibutes for llkd thread";
+            }
+        }
+    } else {
+        LOG(DEBUG) << "[khungtaskd] left unconfigured";
+    }
+    if (logConfig) {
+        llkLogConfig();
+    }
+
+    return llkEnable;
+}
diff --git a/llkd/llkd.cpp b/llkd/llkd.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f10253d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llkd/llkd.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include "llkd.h"
+
+#include <sched.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include <chrono>
+
+#include <android-base/logging.h>
+
+using namespace std::chrono;
+
+int main(int, char**) {
+    LOG(INFO) << "started";
+
+    bool enabled = llkInit();
+
+    // Would like this policy to be automatic as part of libllkd,
+    // but that would be presumptuous and bad side-effect.
+    struct sched_param param;
+    memset(&param, 0, sizeof(param));
+    sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_BATCH, &param);
+
+    while (true) {
+        if (enabled) {
+            ::usleep(duration_cast<microseconds>(llkCheck()).count());
+        } else {
+            ::pause();
+        }
+    }
+    // NOTREACHED
+
+    LOG(INFO) << "exiting";
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/llkd/llkd.rc b/llkd/llkd.rc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a257e76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llkd/llkd.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Configure [khungtaskd]
+on property:ro.khungtask.enable=true
+    write /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs ${ro.khungtask.timeout:-720}
+    write /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_warnings 65535
+    write /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_check_count 65535
+    write /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_panic 1
+
+on property:ro.llk.enable=true
+    start llkd
+
+service llkd /system/bin/llkd
+    class late_start
+    disabled
+    user llkd
+    group llkd readproc
+    capabilities KILL IPC_LOCK
+    file /proc/sysrq-trigger w
+    writepid /dev/cpuset/system-background/tasks
diff --git a/llkd/tests/Android.bp b/llkd/tests/Android.bp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6dd5938
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llkd/tests/Android.bp
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+// Copyright (C) 2018 The Android Open Source Project
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+cc_test {
+    name: "llkd_unit_test",
+
+    shared_libs: [
+        "libbase",
+        "liblog",
+    ],
+    header_libs: [
+        "llkd_headers",
+    ],
+
+    target: {
+        android: {
+            srcs: [
+                "llkd_test.cpp",
+            ],
+        },
+    },
+
+    cflags: [
+        "-Wall",
+        "-Wextra",
+        "-Werror",
+    ],
+
+    compile_multilib: "first",
+}
diff --git a/llkd/tests/llkd_test.cpp b/llkd/tests/llkd_test.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3c95eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llkd/tests/llkd_test.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,243 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include <chrono>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <string>
+
+#include <android-base/properties.h>
+#include <gtest/gtest.h>
+#include <log/log_time.h>  // for MS_PER_SEC and US_PER_SEC
+
+#include "llkd.h"
+
+using namespace std::chrono;
+using namespace std::chrono_literals;
+
+namespace {
+
+milliseconds GetUintProperty(const std::string& key, milliseconds def) {
+    return milliseconds(android::base::GetUintProperty(key, static_cast<uint64_t>(def.count()),
+                                                       static_cast<uint64_t>(def.max().count())));
+}
+
+seconds GetUintProperty(const std::string& key, seconds def) {
+    return seconds(android::base::GetUintProperty(key, static_cast<uint64_t>(def.count()),
+                                                  static_cast<uint64_t>(def.max().count())));
+}
+
+// GTEST_LOG_(WARNING) output is fugly, this has much less noise
+// ToDo: look into fixing googletest to produce output that matches style of
+//       all the other status messages, and can switch off __line__ and
+//       __function__ noise
+#define GTEST_LOG_WARNING std::cerr << "[ WARNING  ] "
+#define GTEST_LOG_INFO std::cerr << "[   INFO   ] "
+
+// Properties is _not_ a high performance ABI!
+void rest() {
+    usleep(200000);
+}
+
+void execute(const char* command) {
+    if (getuid() || system(command)) {
+        system((std::string("su root ") + command).c_str());
+    }
+}
+
+seconds llkdSleepPeriod(char state) {
+    auto default_enable = android::base::GetBoolProperty(LLK_ENABLE_PROPERTY, LLK_ENABLE_DEFAULT);
+    if (android::base::GetProperty(LLK_ENABLE_PROPERTY, "nothing") == "nothing") {
+        GTEST_LOG_INFO << LLK_ENABLE_PROPERTY " defaults to " << (default_enable ? "true" : "false")
+                       << "\n";
+    }
+    // Hail Mary hope is unconfigured.
+    if ((GetUintProperty(LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY, LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_DEFAULT) !=
+         duration_cast<milliseconds>(120s)) ||
+        (GetUintProperty(LLK_CHECK_MS_PROPERTY,
+                         LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_DEFAULT / LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT) !=
+         duration_cast<milliseconds>(10s))) {
+        execute("stop llkd");
+        rest();
+        std::string setprop("setprop ");
+        execute((setprop + LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY + " 120000").c_str());
+        rest();
+        execute((setprop + KHT_TIMEOUT_PROPERTY + " 130").c_str());
+        rest();
+        execute((setprop + LLK_CHECK_MS_PROPERTY + " 10000").c_str());
+        rest();
+        execute((setprop + LLK_ENABLE_PROPERTY + " true").c_str());
+        rest();
+    }
+    default_enable = android::base::GetBoolProperty(LLK_ENABLE_PROPERTY, false);
+    if (default_enable) {
+        execute("start llkd");
+        rest();
+        GTEST_LOG_INFO << "llkd enabled\n";
+    } else {
+        GTEST_LOG_WARNING << "llkd disabled\n";
+    }
+
+    /* KISS follows llk_init() */
+    milliseconds llkTimeoutMs = LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_DEFAULT;
+    seconds khtTimeout = duration_cast<seconds>(
+        llkTimeoutMs * (1 + LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT) / LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT);
+    khtTimeout = GetUintProperty(KHT_TIMEOUT_PROPERTY, khtTimeout);
+    llkTimeoutMs =
+        khtTimeout * LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT / (1 + LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT);
+    llkTimeoutMs = GetUintProperty(LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY, llkTimeoutMs);
+    if (llkTimeoutMs < LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_MINIMUM) {
+        llkTimeoutMs = LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_MINIMUM;
+    }
+    milliseconds llkCheckMs = llkTimeoutMs / LLK_CHECKS_PER_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT;
+    auto timeout = GetUintProperty(
+        (state == 'Z') ? LLK_Z_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY : LLK_D_TIMEOUT_MS_PROPERTY, llkTimeoutMs);
+    if (timeout < LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_MINIMUM) {
+        timeout = LLK_TIMEOUT_MS_MINIMUM;
+    }
+
+    if (llkCheckMs > timeout) {
+        llkCheckMs = timeout;
+    }
+    llkCheckMs = GetUintProperty(LLK_CHECK_MS_PROPERTY, llkCheckMs);
+    timeout += llkCheckMs;
+    auto sec = duration_cast<seconds>(timeout);
+    if (sec == 0s) {
+        ++sec;
+    } else if (sec > 59s) {
+        GTEST_LOG_WARNING << "llkd is configured for about " << duration_cast<minutes>(sec).count()
+                          << " minutes to react\n";
+    }
+
+    // 33% margin for the test to naturally timeout waiting for llkd to respond
+    return (sec * 4 + 2s) / 3;
+}
+
+inline void waitForPid(pid_t child_pid) {
+    int wstatus;
+    ASSERT_LE(0, waitpid(child_pid, &wstatus, 0));
+    EXPECT_FALSE(WIFEXITED(wstatus)) << "[   INFO   ] exit=" << WEXITSTATUS(wstatus);
+    ASSERT_TRUE(WIFSIGNALED(wstatus));
+    ASSERT_EQ(WTERMSIG(wstatus), SIGKILL);
+}
+
+}  // namespace
+
+// The tests that use this helper are to simulate processes stuck in 'D'
+// state that are experiencing forward scheduled progress. As such the
+// expectation is that llkd will _not_ perform any mitigations. The sleepfor
+// argument helps us set the amount of forward scheduler progress.
+static void llkd_driver_ABA(const microseconds sleepfor) {
+    const auto period = llkdSleepPeriod('D');
+    if (period <= sleepfor) {
+        GTEST_LOG_WARNING << "llkd configuration too short for "
+                          << duration_cast<milliseconds>(sleepfor).count() << "ms work cycle\n";
+        return;
+    }
+
+    auto child_pid = fork();
+    ASSERT_LE(0, child_pid);
+    int wstatus;
+    if (!child_pid) {
+        auto ratio = period / sleepfor;
+        ASSERT_LT(0, ratio);
+        // vfork() parent is uninterruptable D state waiting for child to exec()
+        while (--ratio > 0) {
+            auto driver_pid = vfork();
+            ASSERT_LE(0, driver_pid);
+            if (driver_pid) {  // parent
+                waitpid(driver_pid, &wstatus, 0);
+                if (!WIFEXITED(wstatus)) {
+                    exit(42);
+                }
+                if (WEXITSTATUS(wstatus) != 42) {
+                    exit(42);
+                }
+            } else {
+                usleep(sleepfor.count());
+                exit(42);
+            }
+        }
+        exit(0);
+    }
+    ASSERT_LE(0, waitpid(child_pid, &wstatus, 0));
+    EXPECT_TRUE(WIFEXITED(wstatus));
+    if (WIFEXITED(wstatus)) {
+        EXPECT_EQ(0, WEXITSTATUS(wstatus));
+    }
+    ASSERT_FALSE(WIFSIGNALED(wstatus)) << "[   INFO   ] signo=" << WTERMSIG(wstatus);
+}
+
+TEST(llkd, driver_ABA_fast) {
+    llkd_driver_ABA(5ms);
+}
+
+TEST(llkd, driver_ABA_slow) {
+    llkd_driver_ABA(1s);
+}
+
+TEST(llkd, driver_ABA_glacial) {
+    llkd_driver_ABA(1min);
+}
+
+// Following tests must be last in this file to capture possible errant
+// kernel_panic mitigation failure.
+
+// The following tests simulate processes stick in 'Z' or 'D' state with
+// no forward scheduling progress, but interruptible. As such the expectation
+// is that llkd will perform kill mitigation and not progress to kernel_panic.
+
+TEST(llkd, zombie) {
+    const auto period = llkdSleepPeriod('Z');
+
+    /* Create a Persistent Zombie Process */
+    pid_t child_pid = fork();
+    ASSERT_LE(0, child_pid);
+    if (!child_pid) {
+        auto zombie_pid = fork();
+        ASSERT_LE(0, zombie_pid);
+        if (!zombie_pid) {
+            sleep(1);
+            exit(0);
+        }
+        sleep(period.count());
+        exit(42);
+    }
+
+    waitForPid(child_pid);
+}
+
+TEST(llkd, driver) {
+    const auto period = llkdSleepPeriod('D');
+
+    /* Create a Persistent Device Process */
+    auto child_pid = fork();
+    ASSERT_LE(0, child_pid);
+    if (!child_pid) {
+        // vfork() parent is uninterruptable D state waiting for child to exec()
+        auto driver_pid = vfork();
+        ASSERT_LE(0, driver_pid);
+        sleep(period.count());
+        exit(driver_pid ? 42 : 0);
+    }
+
+    waitForPid(child_pid);
+}