From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Subject: Start using struct pid.
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:21:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k65997xk.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In the last round of cleaning up the pid hash table a more
general struct pid was introduced, that can be referenced
counted.
With the more general struct pid most if not all places where
we store a pid_t we can now store a struct pid * and remove
the need for a hash table lookup, and avoid any possible problems
with pid roll over.
Looking forward to the pid namespaces struct pid * gives us
an absolute form a pid so we can compare and use them without
caring which pid namespace we are in.
This patchset introduces the infrastructure needed to use
struct pid instead of pid_t, and then it goes on to convert
two different kernel users that currently store a pid_t value.
There are a lot more places to go but this is enough to get the
basic idea.
Before we can merge a pid namespace patch all of the kernel pid_t
users need to be examined. Those that deal with user space processes
need to be converted to using a struct pid *. Those that deal with
kernel processes need to converted to using the kthread api. A rare
few that only use their current processes pid values get to be left
alone.
Eric
next reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-15 18:21 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 1/7] pid: Implement access helpers for a tacks various process groups Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:40 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-15 19:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 8:04 ` [Containers] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 2/7] pid: Add do_each_pid_task Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 3:10 ` [Containers] " Serge E. Hallyn
2006-08-16 4:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-16 6:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 6:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 11:57 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-08-16 19:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-17 21:16 ` [PATCH -mm] simplify pid iterators Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 3/7] pid: Implement signal functions that take a struct pid * Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 4/7] pid: Export the symbols needed to use " Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 5/7] pid: Implement pid_nr Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:37 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-15 19:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 19:15 ` [Containers] " Dave Hansen
2006-08-16 6:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 16:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-16 17:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 18:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-16 16:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 21:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-16 17:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 6/7] vt: Update spawnpid to be a struct pid_t Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:53 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-15 18:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 8:04 ` [Containers] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-16 14:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 19:38 ` Ray Lehtiniemi
2006-08-16 19:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-16 15:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-16 17:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 7/7] file: Modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 18:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-16 18:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
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