[PATCH] namespaces: add nsproxy

This patch adds a nsproxy structure to the task struct.  Later patches will
move the fs namespace pointer into this structure, and introduce a new utsname
namespace into the nsproxy.

The vserver and openvz functionality, then, would be implemented in large part
by virtualizing/isolating more and more resources into namespaces, each
contained in the nsproxy.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nsproxy.h b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7bdebfaab6a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_NSPROXY_H
+#define _LINUX_NSPROXY_H
+
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+
+/*
+ * A structure to contain pointers to all per-process
+ * namespaces - fs (mount), uts, network, sysvipc, etc.
+ *
+ * 'count' is the number of tasks holding a reference.
+ * The count for each namespace, then, will be the number
+ * of nsproxies pointing to it, not the number of tasks.
+ *
+ * The nsproxy is shared by tasks which share all namespaces.
+ * As soon as a single namespace is cloned or unshared, the
+ * nsproxy is copied.
+ */
+struct nsproxy {
+        atomic_t count;
+        spinlock_t nslock;
+};
+extern struct nsproxy init_nsproxy;
+
+struct nsproxy *dup_namespaces(struct nsproxy *orig);
+int copy_namespaces(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk);
+void get_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *tsk);
+void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns);
+
+static inline void put_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+        if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->count)) {
+                free_nsproxy(ns);
+        }
+}
+
+static inline void exit_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+        struct nsproxy *ns = p->nsproxy;
+        if (ns) {
+                put_nsproxy(ns);
+                p->nsproxy = NULL;
+        }
+}
+#endif