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Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup [message #1310 is a reply to message #1281]

Mon, 06 February 2006 16:56

Linus Torvalds
Messages: 11
Registered: February 2006

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On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>
> Please, also note, in OpenVZ we have 2 pointers on task_struct:
> One is owner of a task (owner_env), 2nd is a current context (exec_env).
> exec_env pointer is used to avoid adding of additional argument to all the
> functions where current context is required.

That naming _has_ to change.

"exec" has a very clear meaning in unix: it talks about the notion of
switching to another process image, or perhaps the bit that says that a
file contains an image that can be executed. It has nothing to do with
"current".

What you seem to be talking about is the _effective_ environment. Ie the
same way we have "uid" and "euid", you'd have a "container" and the
"effective container".

The "owner" name also makes no sense. The security context doesn't "own"
tasks. A task is _part_ of a context.

So if some people don't like "container", how about just calling it
"context"? The downside of that name is that it's very commonly used in
the kenel, because a lot of things have "contexts". That's why "container"
would be a lot better.

I'd suggest

current->container - the current EFFECTIVE container
current->master_container - the "long term" container.

(replace "master" with some other non-S&M term if you want)

(It would make sense to just have the prepend-"e" semantics of uid/gid,
but the fact is, "euid/egid" has a long unix history and is readable only
for that reason. The same wouldn't be true of containers. And
"effective_container" is probably too long to use for the field that is
actually the _common_ case. Thus the above suggestion).

Linus

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		[RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Kirill Korotaev on Fri, 03 February 2006 16:57
		[RFC][PATCH 2/5] Virtualization/containers: UIDs By: dev on Fri, 03 February 2006 17:01
		[RFC][PATCH 3/5] Virtualization/containers: UTSNAME By: dev on Fri, 03 February 2006 17:04
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/5] Virtualization/containers: UTSNAME By: ebiederm on Mon, 06 February 2006 08:21
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/5] Virtualization/containers: UTSNAME By: dev on Mon, 06 February 2006 08:51
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Fri, 03 February 2006 17:22
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Linus Torvalds on Fri, 03 February 2006 17:49
		Summary: PID virtualization , Containers, Migration By: Hubertus Franke on Fri, 03 February 2006 18:36
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Rik van Riel on Fri, 03 February 2006 18:36
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Sun, 05 February 2006 14:52
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: ebiederm on Mon, 06 February 2006 08:39
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Mon, 06 February 2006 08:58
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: ebiederm on Mon, 06 February 2006 09:19
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Dave Hansen on Mon, 06 February 2006 16:37
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: ebiederm on Mon, 06 February 2006 18:37
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Mon, 06 February 2006 19:30
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Cedric Le Goater on Mon, 06 February 2006 22:40
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: ebiederm on Tue, 07 February 2006 01:57
		swsusp done by migration (was Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup) By: Pavel Machek on Wed, 08 February 2006 21:54
		Re: swsusp done by migration (was Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup) By: ebiederm on Thu, 09 February 2006 18:20
		Re: swsusp done by migration (was Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup) By: Kyle Moffett on Fri, 10 February 2006 00:21
		Re: swsusp done by migration (was Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup) By: Sam Vilain on Fri, 10 February 2006 04:31
		Re: Re: swsusp done by migration (was Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup) By: vaverin on Fri, 10 February 2006 06:23
		Re: Re: swsusp done by migration (was Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup) By: Sam Vilain on Sat, 11 February 2006 02:38
		Re: Re: swsusp done by migration (was Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup) By: vaverin on Sat, 11 February 2006 17:29
		Re: swsusp done by migration (was Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup) By: Kyle Moffett on Fri, 10 February 2006 08:29
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Nigel Cunningham on Fri, 10 February 2006 05:40
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Dave Hansen on Fri, 03 February 2006 18:34
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Jeff Garzik on Fri, 03 February 2006 18:55
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Hubertus Franke on Fri, 03 February 2006 19:18
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Hubertus Franke on Fri, 03 February 2006 19:56
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Greg KH on Fri, 03 February 2006 20:19
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Sun, 05 February 2006 15:10
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Sun, 05 February 2006 15:05
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Dave Hansen on Mon, 06 February 2006 16:35
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Mon, 06 February 2006 16:50
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Linus Torvalds on Mon, 06 February 2006 16:56
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Mon, 06 February 2006 17:19
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Sam Vilain on Tue, 07 February 2006 00:28
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Tue, 07 February 2006 12:19
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Sam Vilain on Tue, 07 February 2006 22:21
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Mon, 20 February 2006 11:54
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Linus Torvalds on Fri, 03 February 2006 17:15
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Hubertus Franke on Fri, 03 February 2006 20:34
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Sun, 05 February 2006 15:11
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Hubertus Franke on Sun, 05 February 2006 15:39
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Mon, 06 February 2006 09:06
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Cedric Le Goater on Mon, 06 February 2006 22:31
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Tue, 07 February 2006 12:25
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: Benjamin Herrenschmid on Mon, 06 February 2006 00:56
		Re: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: dev on Mon, 06 February 2006 09:01
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: ebiederm on Mon, 06 February 2006 08:31
		Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup By: ebiederm on Fri, 10 February 2006 06:01

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