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Processes with multiple pid_t values
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description: A process that unshares its namespace gets a new pid_t in the child namespace. Simlarly its process group and session leaders get new pid_ts in the child namespace right ? i.e do the following pid_ts look reasonable when process 1234 unshares its pid namespace ? PID PPID PGID SID init pid ns 1234 1233 1230 1220 child pid ns 3 2 1 0 Assuming they are :-), we should expect find_pid() call with nr == 0, 1, or 2 in the child pid namespace to also work right ? But processes 1220, 1230, 1233 are entered into the hash table based on their init pid ns values. And so the above find_pid() calls would not find the process we want. i.e some processes have two pid_ts and we want to find them using either of the two values. The pid_hash table can obviously hash on one value. We would need some serious changes to the pid_hash table to do this ??? (can we change the hash algorithm to generate a key based on all pid_ts a process has ????) Or should we just keep track of these special processes (4 per namespace including the child reaper) in the namespace object - just like we treat the child_reaper special ? Then find_pid() would have to check the namespace object in addition to hash table. Appreciate any ideas/comments. Suka _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
creator: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
date: 2006-12-08T21:23:47-00:00

Re: Processes with multiple pid_t values
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description: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> writes: > A process that unshares its namespace gets a new pid_t in the child > namespace. Simlarly its process group and session leaders get new pid_ts > in the child namespace right ? So far the only place where switching to a new pid namespace has an obvious answer is with sys clone. At that point the answer is: PID == 1 PPID = 0 PGID = 1 SID = 1. Just like /sbin/init gets. > > i.e do the following pid_ts look reasonable when process 1234 unshares > its pid namespace ? > > > PID PPID PGID SID > > init pid ns 1234 1233 1230 1220 > > child pid ns 3 2 1 0 > > Assuming they are :-), we should expect find_pid() call with nr == 0, 1, > or 2 in the child pid namespace to also work right ? find_pid with nr == 0 will always fail. > But processes 1220, 1230, 1233 are entered into the hash table based on > their init pid ns values. And so the above find_pid() calls would not > find the process we want. > > i.e some processes have two pid_ts and we want to find them using either > of the two values. The pid_hash table can obviously hash on one value. > > We would need some serious changes to the pid_hash table to do this ??? > (can we change the hash algorithm to generate a key based on all pid_ts > a process has ????) You just enter a struct pid into the hash table based upon each pid_t value assigned to it. You make the key comparison (namespace, pid_t) == (namespace, pid_t) when doing the hash lookup. > Or should we just keep track of these special processes (4 per namespace > including the child reaper) in the namespace object - just like we treat > the child_reaper special ? > > Then find_pid() would have to check the namespace object in addition to > hash table. Assume that we will have pid namespaces nested in pid namespaces 2 or 3 levels deep. Understand what a session id, a process group id, and a pid are and how they are normally assigned please. Don't even consider unshare of the pid namespace until you can see how to handl…
creator: ebiederm
date: 2006-12-09T08:13:51-00:00

Re: Processes with multiple pid_t values
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description: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> writes: > A process that unshares its namespace gets a new pid_t in the child > namespace. Simlarly its process group and session leaders get new pid_ts > in the child namespace right ? > > i.e do the following pid_ts look reasonable when process 1234 unshares > its pid namespace ? > > > PID PPID PGID SID > > init pid ns 1234 1233 1230 1220 > > child pid ns 3 2 1 0 A slightly more complete answer. A pid that cannot be represented in the current pid namespace should be 0. pid 1 is very special and in the case of a clone should definitely be the first pid in the namespace. In the case of an unshare pid == 1 is probably the process that does the unshare, and it's children all show up in the child namespace. Any other pids should simply be allocated with the pid allocator if they do not fall into the pid namespace. > Assuming they are :-), we should expect find_pid() call with nr == 0, 1, > or 2 in the child pid namespace to also work right ? > > But processes 1220, 1230, 1233 are entered into the hash table based on > their init pid ns values. And so the above find_pid() calls would not > find the process we want. My expectation is that we will have a link entry that points to the real struct pid. Or possibly a different data structure at that point. The pid hash table does not scale well to very large numbers of pids. > i.e some processes have two pid_ts and we want to find them using either > of the two values. The pid_hash table can obviously hash on one value. > > We would need some serious changes to the pid_hash table to do this ??? > (can we change the hash algorithm to generate a key based on all pid_ts > a process has ????) The key would need to be pid_namespace, pid_t. We just need a few tweaks to the lookup algorithm. It's 5-10 line patch most likely. > Or should we just keep track of these special processes (4 per namespace > including the child reaper) in the namespace object - just like we treat > the child_reaper …
creator: ebiederm
date: 2006-12-12T04:25:23-00:00

Re: Processes with multiple pid_t values
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description: Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com): > Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> writes: > > > A process that unshares its namespace gets a new pid_t in the child > > namespace. Simlarly its process group and session leaders get new pid_ts > > in the child namespace right ? > > > > i.e do the following pid_ts look reasonable when process 1234 unshares > > its pid namespace ? > > > > > > PID PPID PGID SID > > > > init pid ns 1234 1233 1230 1220 > > > > child pid ns 3 2 1 0 > > A slightly more complete answer. > > A pid that cannot be represented in the current pid namespace should be > 0. > > pid 1 is very special and in the case of a clone should definitely > be the first pid in the namespace. > > In the case of an unshare pid == 1 is probably the process that does > the unshare, and it's children all show up in the child namespace. Sigh, here we go back again to the question of what to do in the case of a lightweight container which doesn't have a /sbin/init. Let's say I do spawn_container(fork_and_exit(sleep 30m)); so pid 1 forks, pid 2 sleeps 30 minutes, but pid 1 exits right after the fork. What do we do? Create an idle pid 1? Tack a struct pid to the parent namespaces' pid=1 making it pid=1 for the child namespace? -serge _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
creator: serue
date: 2006-12-12T16:04:55-00:00

Re: Processes with multiple pid_t values
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description: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes: > Sigh, here we go back again to the question of what to do in the case > of a lightweight container which doesn't have a /sbin/init. Let's say > I do > spawn_container(fork_and_exit(sleep 30m)); > > so pid 1 forks, pid 2 sleeps 30 minutes, but pid 1 exits right after > the fork. What do we do? Create an idle pid 1? Tack a struct pid > to the parent namespaces' pid=1 making it pid=1 for the child namespace? I was thinking whoever called spawn container would be pid 1. But I agree that is only a partial solution. It definitely makes sense to worry about this question later when all of the rest of the details for system containers are sorted out. Eric _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
creator: ebiederm
date: 2006-12-12T21:34:20-00:00

Re: Processes with multiple pid_t values
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description: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:34:20PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes: > > > Sigh, here we go back again to the question of what to do in the case > > of a lightweight container which doesn't have a /sbin/init. Let's say > > I do > > spawn_container(fork_and_exit(sleep 30m)); > > > > so pid 1 forks, pid 2 sleeps 30 minutes, but pid 1 exits right after > > the fork. What do we do? Create an idle pid 1? Tack a struct pid > > to the parent namespaces' pid=1 making it pid=1 for the child namespace? it would be perfectly fine, as long as the following is true: - only the pid remains, not the associated task - a 'fallback' reaper takes care of reaping the children (in the lightweight case) - the task creating the container does not need to 'hang' around outside the container > I was thinking whoever called spawn container would be pid 1. > But I agree that is only a partial solution. > It definitely makes sense to worry about this question later when all > of the rest of the details for system containers are sorted out. okay, as long as 'we' do not forget about this on the way ... best, Herbert > Eric > _______________________________________________ > Containers mailing list > Containers@lists.osdl.org > https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/containers _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
creator: Herbert Poetzl
date: 2006-12-13T08:10:24-00:00

Re: Processes with multiple pid_t values
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description: Hmm. I have this mail sitting in my sent folder since Dec 18 but do not see it in the Containers archives. If you already received, sorry to spam. Appreciate any clarifications of my doubt :-) Suka Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:37:01 -0800 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org> Subject: Re: Processes with multiple pid_t values Eric W. Biederman [ebiederm@xmission.com] wrote: | Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> writes: | | > A process that unshares its namespace gets a new pid_t in the child | > namespace. Simlarly its process group and session leaders get new pid_ts | > in the child namespace right ? | > | > i.e do the following pid_ts look reasonable when process 1234 unshares | > its pid namespace ? | > | > | > PID PPID PGID SID | > | > init pid ns 1234 1233 1230 1220 | > | > child pid ns 3 2 1 0 | | A slightly more complete answer. | | A pid that cannot be represented in the current pid namespace should be | 0. For my example above, I guess you are saying we want the following ids. PID PPID PGID SID init pid ns 1234 1233 1230 1220 child pid ns 1 0 1 1 If so, my confusion is that for the process 1234, following are true right ? task_pgrp(current) != task_session(current) != task_pid(current) If we associate a list of [namespace, id] tuples with each struct pid, then three different struct pids would have the same id in the child namespace (unless the process calling clone() is both a session and process group leader). | | | pid 1 is very special and in the case of a clone should definitely | be the first pid in the namespace. | | In the case of an unshare pid == 1 is probably the process that does | the unshare, and it's children all show up in the child namespace. | | Any other pids should simply be allocated with the pid allocator if they | do not fall into the pid namespace. | | > Assuming they are :-), we should expect find_pid() call with nr == 0, 1, | > or 2…
creator: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
date: 2007-01-09T03:33:18-00:00

Re: Processes with multiple pid_t values
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description: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> writes: > Hmm. I have this mail sitting in my sent folder since Dec 18 but do > not see it in the Containers archives. If you already received, sorry > to spam. Appreciate any clarifications of my doubt :-) There is something about your usage of the word doubt that does not quite feel correct. I wonder if it is just me..... > For my example above, I guess you are saying we want the following ids. > > PID PPID PGID SID > > init pid ns 1234 1233 1230 1220 > > child pid ns 1 0 1 1 > > > If so, my confusion is that for the process 1234, following are true > right ? > > task_pgrp(current) != task_session(current) != task_pid(current) > > If we associate a list of [namespace, id] tuples with each struct pid, > then three different struct pids would have the same id in the child > namespace (unless the process calling clone() is both a session and > process group leader). I guess it depends on how we set it up, it all depends on how the groups are formed. There is no reason to believe any particular realtionship between the pid pgrp and session of the calling process from which we inherit these things. If we can make it all work without doing the equivalent of setsid() at clone time I think it is a better implementation. However by default /sbin/init does call setsid() at which point we know we have the relationship: pid == pgrp == session. So once setsid() is called (the common case) we will have the id relationship above. In fact we force that relationship for /sbin/init today at kernel startup time. Eric _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
creator: ebiederm
date: 2007-01-09T04:22:10-00:00