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 <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

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;