pid namespaces: introduce struct upid
authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:40:03 +0000 (23:40 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:53:38 +0000 (11:53 -0700)
Since task will be visible from different pid namespaces each of them have to
be addressed by multiple pids.  struct upid is to store the information about
which id refers to which namespace.

The constuciton looks like this.  Each struct pid carried the reference
counter and the list of tasks attached to this pid.  At its end it has a
variable length array of struct upid-s.  Each struct upid has a numerical id
(pid itself), pointer to the namespace, this ID is valid in and is hashed into
a pid_hash for searching the pids.

The nr and pid_chain fields are kept in struct pid for a while to make kernel
still work (no patch initialize the upids yet), but it will be removed at the
end of this series when we switch to upids completely.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/init_task.h
include/linux/pid.h

index d4b2f1c76e12c528b8701111445bd864ef5ea062..243e287304d089fff691167a35fb88e71d99a832 100644 (file)
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
                { .first = &init_task.pids[PIDTYPE_SID].node },         \
        },                                                              \
        .rcu            = RCU_HEAD_INIT,                                \
+       .level          = 0,                                            \
+       .numbers        = { {                                           \
+               .nr             = 0,                                    \
+               .ns             = &init_pid_ns,                         \
+               .pid_chain      = { .next = NULL, .pprev = NULL },      \
+       }, }                                                            \
 }
 
 #define INIT_PID_LINK(type)                                    \
index 1e0e4e3423a628a7983520762b7364038fbbe628..e5865a9c58a6ab07bd9a909cbfd254028e17f5fe 100644 (file)
@@ -40,6 +40,20 @@ enum pid_type
  * processes.
  */
 
+
+/*
+ * struct upid is used to get the id of the struct pid, as it is
+ * seen in particular namespace. Later the struct pid is found with
+ * find_pid_ns() using the int nr and struct pid_namespace *ns.
+ */
+
+struct upid {
+       /* Try to keep pid_chain in the same cacheline as nr for find_pid */
+       int nr;
+       struct pid_namespace *ns;
+       struct hlist_node pid_chain;
+};
+
 struct pid
 {
        atomic_t count;
@@ -49,6 +63,8 @@ struct pid
        /* lists of tasks that use this pid */
        struct hlist_head tasks[PIDTYPE_MAX];
        struct rcu_head rcu;
+       int level;
+       struct upid numbers[1];
 };
 
 extern struct pid init_struct_pid;