include/linux/pid.h

#ifndef _LINUX_PID_H
#define _LINUX_PID_H

#include <linux/rcupdate.h>

enum pid_type
{
	PIDTYPE_PID,
	PIDTYPE_PGID,
	PIDTYPE_SID,
	PIDTYPE_MAX
};

/*
 * What is struct pid?
 *
 * A struct pid is the kernel's internal notion of a process identifier.
 * It refers to individual tasks, process groups, and sessions.  While
 * there are processes attached to it the struct pid lives in a hash
 * table, so it and then the processes that it refers to can be found
 * quickly from the numeric pid value.  The attached processes may be
 * quickly accessed by following pointers from struct pid.
 *
 * Storing pid_t values in the kernel and refering to them later has a
 * problem.  The process originally with that pid may have exited and the
 * pid allocator wrapped, and another process could have come along
 * and been assigned that pid.
 *
 * Referring to user space processes by holding a reference to struct
 * task_struct has a problem.  When the user space process exits
 * the now useless task_struct is still kept.  A task_struct plus a
 * stack consumes around 10K of low kernel memory.  More precisely
 * this is THREAD_SIZE + sizeof(struct task_struct).  By comparison
 * a struct pid is about 64 bytes.
 *
 * Holding a reference to struct pid solves both of these problems.
 * It is small so holding a reference does not consume a lot of
 * resources, and since a new struct pid is allocated when the numeric pid
 * value is reused (when pids wrap around) we don't mistakenly refer to new
 * processes.
 */


/*
 * struct upid is used to get the id of the struct pid, as it is
 * seen in particular namespace. Later the struct pid is found with
 * find_pid_ns() using the int nr and struct pid_namespace *ns.
 */

struct upid {
	/* Try to keep pid_chain in the same cacheline as nr for find_pid */
	int nr;
	struct pid_namespace *ns;
	struct hlist_node pid_chain;
};

struct pid
{
	atomic_t count;
	/* lists of tasks that use this pid */
	struct hlist_head tasks[PIDTYPE_MAX];
	struct rcu_head rcu;
	unsigned int level;
	struct upid numbers[1];
};

extern struct pid init_struct_pid;

struct pid_link
{
	struct hlist_node node;
	struct pid *pid;
};

static inline struct pid *get_pid(struct pid *pid)
{
	if (pid)
		atomic_inc(&pid->count);
	return pid;
}

extern void put_pid(struct pid *pid);
extern struct task_struct *pid_task(struct pid *pid, enum pid_type);
extern struct task_struct *get_pid_task(struct pid *pid, enum pid_type);

extern struct pid *get_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type);

/*
 * attach_pid() and detach_pid() must be called with the tasklist_lock
 * write-held.
 */
extern void attach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type,
			struct pid *pid);
extern void detach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type);
extern void change_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type,
			struct pid *pid);
extern void transfer_pid(struct task_struct *old, struct task_struct *new,
			 enum pid_type);

struct pid_namespace;
extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns;

/*
 * look up a PID in the hash table. Must be called with the tasklist_lock
 * or rcu_read_lock() held.
 *
 * find_pid_ns() finds the pid in the namespace specified
 * find_pid() find the pid by its global id, i.e. in the init namespace
 * find_vpid() finr the pid by its virtual id, i.e. in the current namespace
 *
 * see also find_task_by_pid() set in include/linux/sched.h
 */
extern struct pid *find_pid_ns(int nr, struct pid_namespace *ns);
extern struct pid *find_vpid(int nr);
extern struct pid *find_pid(int nr);

/*
 * Lookup a PID in the hash table, and return with it's count elevated.
 */
extern struct pid *find_get_pid(int nr);
extern struct pid *find_ge_pid(int nr, struct pid_namespace *);
int next_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns, int last);

extern struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns);
extern void free_pid(struct pid *pid);

/*
 * the helpers to get the pid's id seen from different namespaces
 *
 * pid_nr()    : global id, i.e. the id seen from the init namespace;
 * pid_vnr()   : virtual id, i.e. the id seen from the pid namespace of
 *               current.
 * pid_nr_ns() : id seen from the ns specified.
 *
 * see also task_xid_nr() etc in include/linux/sched.h
 */

static inline pid_t pid_nr(struct pid *pid)
{
	pid_t nr = 0;
	if (pid)
		nr = pid->numbers[0].nr;
	return nr;
}

pid_t pid_nr_ns(struct pid *pid, struct pid_namespace *ns);
pid_t pid_vnr(struct pid *pid);

#define do_each_pid_task(pid, type, task)				\
	do {								\
		struct hlist_node *pos___;				\
		if (pid != NULL)					\
			hlist_for_each_entry_rcu((task), pos___,	\
				&pid->tasks[type], pids[type].node) {

			/*
			 * Both old and new leaders may be attached to
			 * the same pid in the middle of de_thread().
			 */
#define while_each_pid_task(pid, type, task)				\
				if (type == PIDTYPE_PID)		\
					break;				\
			}						\
	} while (0)

#endif /* _LINUX_PID_H */