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authorMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>2008-12-31 17:34:16 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-03 18:53:31 +0100
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c kernel/rcuclassic.c kernel/sched.c kernel/time/tick-sched.c Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> [ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -273,3 +273,24 @@ task groups and modify their CPU share using the "cgroups" pseudo filesystem.
# #Launch gmplayer (or your favourite movie player)
# echo <movie_player_pid> > multimedia/tasks
+
+8. Implementation note: user namespaces
+
+User namespaces are intended to be hierarchical. But they are currently
+only partially implemented. Each of those has ramifications for CFS.
+
+First, since user namespaces are hierarchical, the /sys/kernel/uids
+presentation is inadequate. Eventually we will likely want to use sysfs
+tagging to provide private views of /sys/kernel/uids within each user
+namespace.
+
+Second, the hierarchical nature is intended to support completely
+unprivileged use of user namespaces. So if using user groups, then
+we want the users in a user namespace to be children of the user
+who created it.
+
+That is currently unimplemented. So instead, every user in a new
+user namespace will receive 1024 shares just like any user in the
+initial user namespace. Note that at the moment creation of a new
+user namespace requires each of CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SETUID, and
+CAP_SETGID.