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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

             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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