The attached patch abstracts out the namespace initialisation so that temporary namespaces can be set up elsewhere. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> --- warthog>diffstat -p1 init-namespace-2616rc4.diff fs/namespace.c | 8 +------- include/linux/namespace.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -uNrp linux-2.6.16-rc4-getsb/include/linux/namespace.h linux-2.6.16-rc4-getsb-nfs/include/linux/namespace.h --- linux-2.6.16-rc4-getsb/include/linux/namespace.h 2006-02-22 17:00:42.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc4-getsb-nfs/include/linux/namespace.h 2006-02-22 17:37:04.000000000 +0000 @@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ extern int copy_namespace(int, struct ta extern void __put_namespace(struct namespace *namespace); extern struct namespace *dup_namespace(struct task_struct *, struct fs_struct *); +static inline void init_namespace(struct namespace *namespace, + struct vfsmount *mnt) +{ + atomic_set(&namespace->count, 1); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&namespace->list); + init_waitqueue_head(&namespace->poll); + namespace->event = 0; + namespace->root = mnt; + + if (mnt) { + list_add(&mnt->mnt_list, &namespace->list); + mnt->mnt_namespace = namespace; + } +} + static inline void put_namespace(struct namespace *namespace) { if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&namespace->count, &vfsmount_lock)) diff -uNrp linux-2.6.16-rc4-getsb/fs/namespace.c linux-2.6.16-rc4-getsb-nfs/fs/namespace.c --- linux-2.6.16-rc4-getsb/fs/namespace.c 2006-02-22 17:00:37.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc4-getsb-nfs/fs/namespace.c 2006-02-22 18:21:52.000000000 +0000 @@ -1679,13 +1679,7 @@ static void __init init_mount_tree(void) namespace = kmalloc(sizeof(*namespace), GFP_KERNEL); if (!namespace) panic("Can't allocate initial namespace"); - atomic_set(&namespace->count, 1); - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&namespace->list); - init_waitqueue_head(&namespace->poll); - namespace->event = 0; - list_add(&mnt->mnt_list, &namespace->list); - namespace->root = mnt; - mnt->mnt_namespace = namespace; + init_namespace(namespace, mnt); init_task.namespace = namespace; read_lock(&tasklist_lock);