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Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user [message #13635 is a reply to message #13634]

Thu, 31 May 2007 11:46

Pavel Emelianov
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Registered: September 2006

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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> writes:
>
>> Pavel Emelianov wrote:
>>> Cedric Le Goater wrote:
>>>> Hello !
>>>>
>>>>>>> The worst case I can see with pid == 0. Is that it would be a bug
>>>>>>> that we can fix later. For other cases it would seem to be a user
>>>>>>> space API thing that we get stuck with for all time.
>>>>>> We cannot trust userspace application to expect some pid other than
>>>>>> positive. All that we can is either use some always-absent pid or
>>>>>> send the signal as SI_KERNEL.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our experience show that making decisions like above causes random
>>>> <>> applications failures that are hard (or even impossible) to debug.
>>>>
>>>>> Ok. So I guess I see what you are proposing is picking an arbitrary
>>>>> pid, say pid == 2, and reserving that in all pid namespaces and using
>>>>> it when we have a pid that does not map to a specific namespace. I'm
>>>>> fine with that.
>>>>>
>>>>> All I care about is that we have a solution, preferably simple,
>>>>> to the non-mapped pid problem.
>>>> Pavel, are you against using pid == 0 and setting si_code to SI_KERNEL ?
>>> I think I am. A quick grep through the code revealed one place where
>> Sorry. I have misprinted. I meant "I think I am *NOT*". My bad :(
>>
>>> this can happen, so I believe application are (have to be) somehow
>>> prepared to this.
>
> Where was this. I'd like to follow your complete line of thinking.

The line concerning why I think that sending a signal from
SI_KERNEL is good solution?

> Eric
>

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		[PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:32
		[PATCH 1/13] Round up the API By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:35
		Re: [PATCH 1/13] Round up the API By: serue on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:09
		Re: [PATCH 1/13] Round up the API By: ebiederm on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:22
		Re: [PATCH 1/13] Round up the API By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:31
		Re: [PATCH 1/13] Round up the API By: serue on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48
		Re: [PATCH 1/13] Round up the API By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:00
		Re: [PATCH 1/13] Round up the API By: serue on Fri, 25 May 2007 13:02
		[PATCH 2/13] Small preparations for namespaces By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:37
		Re: [PATCH 2/13] Small preparations for namespaces By: serue on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:08
		Re: [PATCH 2/13] Small preparations for namespaces By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:58
		Re: [PATCH 2/13] Small preparations for namespaces By: serue on Fri, 25 May 2007 13:01
		Re: [PATCH 2/13] Small preparations for namespaces By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 13:21
		Re: [PATCH 2/13] Small preparations for namespaces By: serue on Fri, 25 May 2007 13:55
		[PATCH 3/13] Introduciton of config option and clone flag By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:42
		Re: [PATCH 3/13] Introduciton of config option and clone flag By: ebiederm on Thu, 24 May 2007 15:39
		[PATCH 4/13] Introduce the vpid fields and helpers for getting them By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:44
		[PATCH 5/13] Expand the pid/task seeking functions set By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:46
		Re: [PATCH 5/13] Expand the pid/task seeking functions set By: Dave Hansen on Thu, 24 May 2007 17:11
		Re: [PATCH 5/13] Expand the pid/task seeking functions set By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:08
		Re: [PATCH 5/13] Expand the pid/task seeking functions set By: Sukadev Bhattiprolu on Fri, 25 May 2007 23:36
		[PATCH 6/13] Pid allocation/freeing procedures By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:49
		[PATCH 7/13] Set virtual pids for a newly cloned task By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:53
		[PATCH 8/13] The namespace cloning By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:57
		[PATCH 9/13] Make proc be able to have multiple super blocks By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 13:01
		[PATCH 10/13] Make proc draw pids from appropriate namespace By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 13:04
		[PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 13:06
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: ebiederm on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:05
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: xemul on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:15
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: ebiederm on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:33
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:33
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: ebiederm on Fri, 25 May 2007 15:48
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: Cedric Le Goater on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:32
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 31 May 2007 07:57
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 31 May 2007 08:00
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: ebiederm on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:26
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:46
		Re: [PATCH 11/13] Changes to show virtual ids to user By: ebiederm on Thu, 31 May 2007 13:41
		[PATCH 12/13] Show appropriate pids in proc By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 13:08
		[PATCH 13/13] Make all proc entres accessible in a namespace By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 13:13
		Instructions of how to make testing easy By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 13:19
		Re: Instructions of how to make testing easy By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:16
		Re: Instructions of how to make testing easy By: Cedric Le Goater on Thu, 24 May 2007 14:55
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: serue on Thu, 24 May 2007 15:09
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: xemul on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:11
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: serue on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:59
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: ebiederm on Thu, 24 May 2007 18:56
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: serue on Thu, 24 May 2007 19:10
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:08
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: serue on Fri, 25 May 2007 13:25
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 13:53
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: serue on Fri, 25 May 2007 14:25
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:48
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: ebiederm on Tue, 29 May 2007 04:30
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:47
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: ebiederm on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:36
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:06
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: ebiederm on Fri, 25 May 2007 14:55
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: ebiederm on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:00
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: serue on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:20
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:29
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: serue on Fri, 25 May 2007 13:29
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:26
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: ebiederm on Thu, 24 May 2007 19:18
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:15
		Re: Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: dev on Mon, 28 May 2007 11:50
		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: ebiederm on Tue, 29 May 2007 13:07
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		Re: [PATCH 0/13] Pid namespaces (OpenVZ view) By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:26
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