- 02 2月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Suggested-by: NLucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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- 31 1月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Dan Carpenter 提交于
The current code is a nop. Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Dan Carpenter 提交于
"links" is never used, so we can remove it. Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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- 25 1月, 2012 28 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
The plan is to convert all callers of register_sysctl_table and register_sysctl_paths to register_sysctl. The interface to register_sysctl is enough nicer this should make the callers a bit more readable. Additionally after the conversion the 230 lines of backwards compatibility can be removed. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
One of the most important jobs of sysctl is to export network stack tunables. Several of those tunables are per network device. In several instances people are running with 1000+ network devices in there network stacks, which makes the simple per directory linked list in sysctl a scaling bottleneck. Replace O(N^2) sysctl insertion and lookup times with O(NlogN) by using an rbtree to index the sysctl directories. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.32s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m17s rmmod dummy -> 17s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.074s rmmod dummy -> 0.070s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 3.4s rmmod dummy -> 0.44s Benchmark after (without dev_snmp6): make-dummies 0 9999 -> 0.75s rmmod dummy -> 0.44s make-dummies 0 99999 -> 11s rmmod dummy -> 4.3s At 10,000 dummy devices the bottleneck becomes the time to add and remove the files under /proc/sys/net/dev_snmp6. I have commented out the code that adds and removes files under /proc/sys/net/dev_snmp6 and taken measurments of creating and destroying 100,000 dummies to verify the sysctl continues to scale. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Slightly enhance efficiency and clarity of the code by making the header list per directory instead of per set. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.63s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 2m35s rmmod dummy -> 18s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.32s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m17s rmmod dummy -> 17s Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Simplify the callers of insert_header by removing explicit calls to check for duplicates and instead have insert_header do the work. This makes the code slightly more maintainable by enabling changes to data structures where the insertion of new entries without duplicate suppression is not possible. There is not always a convenient path string where insert_header is called so modify sysctl_check_dups to use sysctl_print_dir when printing the full path when a duplicate is discovered. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
An nsproxy argument here has always been awkard and now the nsproxy argument is completely unnecessary so remove it, replacing it with the set we want the registered tables to show up in. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Piecing together directories by looking first in one directory tree, than in another directory tree and finally in a third directory tree makes it hard to verify that some directory entries are not multiply defined and makes it hard to create efficient implementations the sysctl filesystem. Replace the sysctl wide list of roots with autogenerated links from the core sysctl directory tree to the other sysctl directory trees. This simplifies sysctl directory reading and lookups as now only entries in a single sysctl directory tree need to be considered. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.44s rmmod dummy -> 0.065s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m36s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.63s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 2m35s rmmod dummy -> 18s The slowdown is caused by the lookups used in insert_headers and put_links to see if we need to add links or remove links. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
When there are errors it is very nice to know the full sysctl path. Add a simple function that computes the sysctl path and prints it out. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Simplify the code and the sysctl semantics by autogenerating sysctl directories when a sysctl table is registered that needs the directories and autodeleting the directories when there are no more sysctl tables registered that need them. Autogenerating directories keeps sysctl tables from depending on each other, removing all of the arcane register/unregister ordering constraints and makes it impossible to get the order wrong when reigsering and unregistering sysctl tables. Autogenerating directories yields one unique entity that dentries can point to, retaining the current effective use of the dcache. Add struct ctl_dir as the type of these new autogenerated directories. The attached_by and attached_to fields in ctl_table_header are removed as they are no longer needed. The child field in ctl_table is no longer needed by the core of the sysctl code. ctl_table.child can be removed once all of the existing users have been updated. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.7s rmmod dummy -> 0.07s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m10s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.44s rmmod dummy -> 0.065s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m36s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Add a ctl_table_root pointer to ctl_table set so it is easy to go from a ctl_table_set to a ctl_table_root. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Replace sysctl_head_next with first_entry and next_entry. These new iterators operate at the level of sysctl table entries and filter out any sysctl tables that should not be shown. Utilizing two specialized functions instead of a single function removes conditionals for handling awkward special cases that only come up at the beginning of iteration, making the iterators easier to read and understand. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Replace the helpers that proc_sys_lookup uses with helpers that work in terms of an entire sysctl directory. This is worse for sysctl_lock hold times but it is much better for code clarity and the code cleanups to come. find_in_table is no longer needed so it is removed. find_entry a general helper to find entries in a directory is added. lookup_entry is a simple wrapper around find_entry that takes the sysctl_lock increases the use count if an entry is found and drops the sysctl_lock. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Every other directory has a .child member and we look at the .child for our entries. Do the same for the root_table. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Factor out a routing to initialize the sysctl_table_header. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Add nreg to ctl_table_header. When nreg drops to 0 the ctl_table_header will be unregistered. Factor out drop_sysctl_table from unregister_sysctl_table, and add the logic for decrementing nreg. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Instead of relying on sysct_head_next(NULL) to magically return the right header for the root directory instead explicitly transform NULL into the root directories header. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
While useful at one time for selinux and the sysctl sanity checks those users no longer use the parent field and we can safely remove it. Inspired-by: NLucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmil.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
- Stop validating subdirectories now that we only register leaf tables - Cleanup and improve the duplicate filename check. * Run the duplicate filename check under the sysctl_lock to guarantee we never add duplicate names. * Reduce the duplicate filename check to nearly O(M*N) where M is the number of entries in tthe table we are registering and N is the number of entries in the directory before we got there. - Move the duplicate filename check into it's own function and call it directtly from __register_sysctl_table - Kill the config option as the sanity checks are now cheap enough the config option is unnecessary. The original reason for the config option was because we had a huge table used to verify the proc filename to binary sysctl mapping. That table has now evolved into the binary_sysctl translation layer and is no longer part of the sysctl_check code. - Tighten up the permission checks. Guarnateeing that files only have read or write permissions. - Removed redudant check for parents having a procname as now everything has a procname. - Generalize the backtrace logic so that we print a backtrace from any failure of __register_sysctl_table that was not caused by a memmory allocation failure. The backtrace allows us to track down who erroneously registered a sysctl table. Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=y): make-dummies 0 999 -> 12s rmmod dummy -> 0.08s Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=n): make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.7s rmmod dummy -> 0.06s make-dummies 0 99999 -> 1m13s rmmod dummy -> 0.38s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.65s rmmod dummy -> 0.055s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m10s rmmod dummy -> 0.39s The sysctl sanity checks now impose no measurable cost. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Split the registration of a complex ctl_table array which may have arbitrary numbers of directories (->child != NULL) and tables of files into a series of simpler registrations that only register tables of files. Graphically: register('dir', { + file-a + file-b + subdir1 + file-c + subdir2 + file-d + file-e }) is transformed into: wrapper->subheaders[0] = register('dir', {file1-a, file1-b}) wrapper->subheaders[1] = register('dir/subdir1', {file-c}) wrapper->subheaders[2] = register('dir/subdir2', {file-d, file-e}) return wrapper This guarantees that __register_sysctl_table will only see a simple ctl_table array with all entries having (->child == NULL). Care was taken to pass the original simple ctl_table arrays to __register_sysctl_table whenever possible. This change is derived from a similar patch written by Lucrian Grijincu. Inspired-by: NLucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
For any component of table passed to __register_sysctl_paths that actually serves as a path, add that to the cstring path that is passed to __register_sysctl_table. The result is that for most calls to __register_sysctl_paths we only pass a table to __register_sysctl_table that contains no child directories. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Make __register_sysctl_table the core sysctl registration operation and make it take a char * string as path. Now that binary paths have been banished into the real of backwards compatibility in kernel/binary_sysctl.c where they can be safely ignored there is no longer a need to use struct ctl_path to represent path names when registering ctl_tables. Start the transition to using normal char * strings to represent pathnames when registering sysctl tables. Normal strings are easier to deal with both in the internal sysctl implementation and for programmers registering sysctl tables. __register_sysctl_paths is turned into a backwards compatibility wrapper that converts a ctl_path array into a normal char * string. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Creating local copies of directory names is a good idea for two reasons. - The dynamic names used by callers must be copied into new strings by the callers today to ensure the strings do not change between register and unregister of the sysctl table. - Sysctl directories have a potentially different lifetime than the time between register and unregister of any particular sysctl table. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
In sysctl_net register the two networking roots in the proper order. In register_sysctl walk the sysctl sets in the reverse order of the sysctl roots. Remove parent from ctl_table_set and setup_sysctl_set as it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
This adds a small helper retire_sysctl_set to remove the intimate knowledge about the how a sysctl_set is implemented from net/sysct_net.c Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
I goofed when I made sysctl directories have nlink == 0. nlink == 0 means the directory has been deleted. nlink == 1 meands a directory does not count subdirectories. Use the default nlink == 1 for sysctl directories. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Move the core sysctl code from kernel/sysctl.c and kernel/sysctl_check.c into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c. Currently sysctl maintenance is hampered by the sysctl implementation being split across 3 files with artificial layering between them. Consolidate the entire sysctl implementation into 1 file so that it is easier to see what is going on and hopefully allowing for simpler maintenance. For functions that are now only used in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c remove their declarations from sysctl.h and make them static in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Simplify the code by treating the base sysctl table like any other sysctl table and register it with register_sysctl_table. To ensure this table is registered early enough to avoid problems call sysctl_init from proc_sys_init. Rename sysctl_net.c:sysctl_init() to net_sysctl_init() to avoid name conflicts now that kernel/sysctl.c:sysctl_init() is no longer static. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Lucas De Marchi 提交于
Remove checks for conditions that will never happen. If procname is NULL the loop would already had bailed out, so there's no need to check it again. At the same time this also compacts the function find_in_table() by refactoring it to be easier to read. Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Reviewed-by: NJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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- 18 1月, 2012 3 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Jüri Aedla reported that the /proc/<pid>/mem handling really isn't very robust, and it also doesn't match the permission checking of any of the other related files. This changes it to do the permission checks at open time, and instead of tracking the process, it tracks the VM at the time of the open. That simplifies the code a lot, but does mean that if you hold the file descriptor open over an execve(), you'll continue to read from the _old_ VM. That is different from our previous behavior, but much simpler. If somebody actually finds a load where this matters, we'll need to revert this commit. I suspect that nobody will ever notice - because the process mapping addresses will also have changed as part of the execve. So you cannot actually usefully access the fd across a VM change simply because all the offsets for IO would have changed too. Reported-by: NJüri Aedla <asd@ut.ee> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
At the moment we allow tasks to set their loginuid if they have CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL. In reality we want tasks to set the loginuid when they log in and it be impossible to ever reset. We had to make it mutable even after it was once set (with the CAP) because on update and admin might have to restart sshd. Now sshd would get his loginuid and the next user which logged in using ssh would not be able to set his loginuid. Systemd has changed how userspace works and allowed us to make the kernel work the way it should. With systemd users (even admins) are not supposed to restart services directly. The system will restart the service for them. Thus since systemd is going to loginuid==-1, sshd would get -1, and sshd would be allowed to set a new loginuid without special permissions. If an admin in this system were to manually start an sshd he is inserting himself into the system chain of trust and thus, logically, it's his loginuid that should be used! Since we have old systems I make this a Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
The function always deals with current. Don't expose an option pretending one can use it for something. You can't. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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- 16 1月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Russell King 提交于
Commit 3292beb3 ("sched/accounting: Change cpustat fields to an array") deleted the code which provides us with the sum of all interrupts in the system, causing vmstat to report zero interrupts occuring in the system. Fix this by restoring the code. Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> # [on ARM] Tested-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Tuner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 1月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Cyrill Gorcunov 提交于
The mm->start_code/end_code, mm->start_data/end_data, mm->start_brk are involved into calculation of program text/data segment sizes (which might be seen in /proc/<pid>/statm) and into brk() call final address. For restore we need to know all these values. While mm->start_code/end_code already present in /proc/$pid/stat, the rest members are not, so this patch brings them in. The restore procedure of these members is addressed in another patch using prctl(). Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Xiaotian Feng 提交于
get_proc_task() can fail to search the task and return NULL, put_task_struct() will then bomb the kernel with following oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 IP: [<ffffffff81217d34>] proc_pid_permission+0x64/0xe0 PGD 112075067 PUD 112814067 PMD 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP This is a regression introduced by commit 0499680a ("procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount options"). The kernel should return -ESRCH if get_proc_task() failed. Signed-off-by: NXiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@tencent.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 11 1月, 2012 3 次提交
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由 Vasiliy Kulikov 提交于
Add support for mount options to restrict access to /proc/PID/ directories. The default backward-compatible "relaxed" behaviour is left untouched. The first mount option is called "hidepid" and its value defines how much info about processes we want to be available for non-owners: hidepid=0 (default) means the old behavior - anybody may read all world-readable /proc/PID/* files. hidepid=1 means users may not access any /proc/<pid>/ directories, but their own. Sensitive files like cmdline, sched*, status are now protected against other users. As permission checking done in proc_pid_permission() and files' permissions are left untouched, programs expecting specific files' modes are not confused. hidepid=2 means hidepid=1 plus all /proc/PID/ will be invisible to other users. It doesn't mean that it hides whether a process exists (it can be learned by other means, e.g. by kill -0 $PID), but it hides process' euid and egid. It compicates intruder's task of gathering info about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated privileges, whether another user runs some sensitive program, whether other users run any program at all, etc. gid=XXX defines a group that will be able to gather all processes' info (as in hidepid=0 mode). This group should be used instead of putting nonroot user in sudoers file or something. However, untrusted users (like daemons, etc.) which are not supposed to monitor the tasks in the whole system should not be added to the group. hidepid=1 or higher is designed to restrict access to procfs files, which might reveal some sensitive private information like precise keystrokes timings: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/05/3 hidepid=1/2 doesn't break monitoring userspace tools. ps, top, pgrep, and conky gracefully handle EPERM/ENOENT and behave as if the current user is the only user running processes. pstree shows the process subtree which contains "pstree" process. Note: the patch doesn't deal with setuid/setgid issues of keeping preopened descriptors of procfs files (like https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/368). We rely on that the leaked information like the scheduling counters of setuid apps doesn't threaten anybody's privacy - only the user started the setuid program may read the counters. Signed-off-by: NVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Vasiliy Kulikov 提交于
Add support for procfs mount options. Actual mount options are coming in the next patches. Signed-off-by: NVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
This one behaves similarly to the /proc/<pid>/fd/ one - it contains symlinks one for each mapping with file, the name of a symlink is "vma->vm_start-vma->vm_end", the target is the file. Opening a symlink results in a file that point exactly to the same inode as them vma's one. For example the ls -l of some arbitrary /proc/<pid>/map_files/ | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f80403000-7f8f80404000 -> /lib64/libc-2.5.so | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f8061e000-7f8f80620000 -> /lib64/libselinux.so.1 | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f80826000-7f8f80827000 -> /lib64/libacl.so.1.1.0 | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f80a2f000-7f8f80a30000 -> /lib64/librt-2.5.so | lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Aug 26 06:40 7f8f80a30000-7f8f80a4c000 -> /lib64/ld-2.5.so This *helps* checkpointing process in three ways: 1. When dumping a task mappings we do know exact file that is mapped by particular region. We do this by opening /proc/$pid/map_files/$address symlink the way we do with file descriptors. 2. This also helps in determining which anonymous shared mappings are shared with each other by comparing the inodes of them. 3. When restoring a set of processes in case two of them has a mapping shared, we map the memory by the 1st one and then open its /proc/$pid/map_files/$address file and map it by the 2nd task. Using /proc/$pid/maps for this is quite inconvenient since it brings repeatable re-reading and reparsing for this text file which slows down restore procedure significantly. Also as being pointed in (3) it is a way easier to use top level shared mapping in children as /proc/$pid/map_files/$address when needed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [gorcunov@openvz.org: make map_files depend on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE] Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: NVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Reviewed-by: N"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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