From 98f842e675f96ffac96e6c50315790912b2812be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric W. Biederman Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:21:48 -0700 Subject: proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors. Assign a unique proc inode to each namespace, and use that inode number to ensure we only allocate at most one proc inode for every namespace in proc. A single proc inode per namespace allows userspace to test to see if two processes are in the same namespace. This has been a long requested feature and only blocked because a naive implementation would put the id in a global space and would ultimately require having a namespace for the names of namespaces, making migration and certain virtualization tricks impossible. We still don't have per superblock inode numbers for proc, which appears necessary for application unaware checkpoint/restart and migrations (if the application is using namespace file descriptors) but that is now allowd by the design if it becomes important. I have preallocated the ipc and uts initial proc inode numbers so their structures can be statically initialized. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- fs/mount.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/mount.h') diff --git a/fs/mount.h b/fs/mount.h index 630fafc616bb..cd5007980400 100644 --- a/fs/mount.h +++ b/fs/mount.h @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ struct mnt_namespace { atomic_t count; + unsigned int proc_inum; struct mount * root; struct list_head list; struct user_namespace *user_ns; -- cgit v1.2.3