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From: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-cr] nested pid namespaces (v2)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:57:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100322195735.GE20796@count0.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100322143800.GD3744@us.ibm.com>

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:38:00AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Louis Rilling (Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com):
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:39:55PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > Support checkpoint and restart of tasks in nested pid namespaces.  At

<snip>

> > It would probably be safer too to use task_active_pid_ns() instead of
> > task->nsproxy->pid_ns, just in case some PID namespace unsharing like proposed
> > by Eric makes it to mainline.
> 
> The task is frozen though so it shouldn't be able to unshare while being
> checkpointed, right?  But it's probably better code anyway.

By the time it reaches checkpoint a frozen task is in the refrigerator
-- most often in the signal delivery portion of syscall return. So it can't
be making any new unshare/setns syscalls and any changes to the namespaces
should be visible.

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-19 21:39 Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-19 21:41 ` [PATCH] user-ns: Nested pidns support (v2) Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-22 10:55 ` [PATCH linux-cr] nested pid namespaces (v2) Louis Rilling
2010-03-22 14:38   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-22 19:57     ` Matt Helsley [this message]
2010-03-23  6:41       ` Louis Rilling
2010-03-22 23:17 ` Oren Laadan
2010-03-23  4:26   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-23  5:39     ` Oren Laadan

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