Re: [PATCH 7/8] cgroup: mount cgroupns-root when inside non-init cgroupns

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Nov 30 2015 - 10:09:48 EST


Hello, Serge.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:17:45PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be simpler to walk dentry from kernfs root than
> > duplicating dentry instantiation?
>
> Sorry I don't think I'm following. Are you suggesting walking the
> kn->parent chain backward and doing d_lookup() at each point starting
> with sb->s_root?

Yeah, something like that. I wonder whether there are already code
paths doing that. What we need is a straight path walk. I could be
wrong but it shouldn't be that complex and if it works out we can
avoid introducing another instantiation / lookup path.

Thanks.

--
tejun
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/