Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] procfs: show hierarchy of pid namespace

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Am 20.11.2014 um 10:57 schrieb Chen, Hanxiao:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: containers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:containers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chen
>> Hanxiao
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 5:30 PM
>> To: Eric W. Biederman; Serge Hallyn; Oleg Nesterov; Richard Weinberger
>> Cc: containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>> Mateusz Guzik; David Howells
>> Subject: [PATCH v8 1/2] procfs: show hierarchy of pid namespace
>>
>> We lack of pid hierarchy information, and this will lead to:
>> a) we don't know pids' relationship, who is whose child:
>>    /proc/PID/ns/pid only tell us whether two pids live in different ns
>> b) bring trouble to nested lxc container check/restore/migration
>> c) bring trouble to pid translation between containers;
>>
>> This patch will show the hierarchy of pid namespace
>> by pidns_hierarchy like:
>>
>> <init_PID> <parent_of_init_PID> <relative PID level>
>>
>> Ex:
>> [root@localhost ~]#cat /proc/pidns_hierarchy
>> 18060 1 1
>> 18102 18060 2
>> 1534  18102 3
>> 1600  18102 3
>> 1550  1 1
>> *Note: numbers represent the pid 1 in different ns
>>
>> It shows the pid hierarchy below:
>>
>>       init_pid_ns 1
>>               │
>> ┌────────────┐
>> ns1                      ns2
>> │                        │
>> 1550                    18060
>>                           │
>>                           │
>>                          ns3
>>                           │
>>                         18102
>>                           │
>>                  ┌──────────┐
>>                  ns4                   ns5
>>                  │                    │
>>                 1534                  1600
>>
>> Every pid printed in pidns_hierarchy
>> is the init pid of that pid ns level.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v8: fix some improper comments
>>     use max() from kernel.h
>> v7: change stype to be consistent with current interface like
>>     <init_PID> <parent_of_init_PID> <relative PID level>
>>     remove EXPERT dependent in Kconfig
>> v6: fix a get_pid leak and do some cleanups;
>> v5: collect pid by find_ge_pid;
>>     use local list inside nslist_proc_show;
>>     use get_pid, remove mutex lock.
>> v4: simplify pid collection and some performance optimizamtion
>>     fix another race issue.
>> v3: fix a race issue and memory leak issue
>> v2: use a procfs text file instead of dirs under /proc
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Any comments?

FWIW, Acked-by: Richard Weinberer <richard@xxxxxx>

The more challenging question is who will pickup this series?
Eric? Andrew?

Thanks,
//richard
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