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authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>2007-10-18 23:40:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-19 11:53:38 -0700
commit4c3f2ead5a3dff9069a45560ba4d007c8ae2e2ee (patch)
treeab47621edf01f64485c99cf2cde56762339c86f1 /kernel
parent60347f6716aa49831ac311e04d77ccdc50dc024a (diff)
downloadlinux-4c3f2ead5a3dff9069a45560ba4d007c8ae2e2ee.tar.gz
pid namespaces: introduce struct upid
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>
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