tree 9d8ca18f3239eff84cad5b79b715c332970fa89d
parent 23eb06de7d2d333a0f7ebba2da663e00c9c9483e
author Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 1196427240 +1100
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1201560917 -0800

sysctl: Infrastructure for per namespace sysctls

This patch implements the basic infrastructure for per namespace sysctls.

A list of lists of sysctl headers is added, allowing each namespace to have
it's own list of sysctl headers.

Each list of sysctl headers has a lookup function to find the first
sysctl header in the list, allowing the lists to have a per namespace
instance.

register_sysct_root is added to tell sysctl.c about additional
lists of sysctl_headers.  As all of the users are expected to be in
kernel no unregister function is provided.

sysctl_head_next is updated to walk through the list of lists.

__register_sysctl_paths is added to add a new sysctl table on
a non-default sysctl list.

The only intrusive part of this patch is propagating the information
to decided which list of sysctls to use for sysctl_check_table.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>