i386: remove bogus comment about memory barrier
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1 #ifndef _LINUX_NSPROXY_H
2 #define _LINUX_NSPROXY_H
4 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
5 #include <linux/sched.h>
7 struct mnt_namespace;
8 struct uts_namespace;
9 struct ipc_namespace;
10 struct pid_namespace;
13 * A structure to contain pointers to all per-process
14 * namespaces - fs (mount), uts, network, sysvipc, etc.
16 * 'count' is the number of tasks holding a reference.
17 * The count for each namespace, then, will be the number
18 * of nsproxies pointing to it, not the number of tasks.
20 * The nsproxy is shared by tasks which share all namespaces.
21 * As soon as a single namespace is cloned or unshared, the
22 * nsproxy is copied.
24 struct nsproxy {
25 atomic_t count;
26 spinlock_t nslock;
27 struct uts_namespace *uts_ns;
28 struct ipc_namespace *ipc_ns;
29 struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns;
30 struct pid_namespace *pid_ns;
31 struct user_namespace *user_ns;
33 extern struct nsproxy init_nsproxy;
35 int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk);
36 void get_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *tsk);
37 void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns);
38 int unshare_nsproxy_namespaces(unsigned long, struct nsproxy **,
39 struct fs_struct *);
41 static inline void put_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
43 if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->count)) {
44 free_nsproxy(ns);
48 static inline void exit_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p)
50 struct nsproxy *ns = p->nsproxy;
51 if (ns) {
52 task_lock(p);
53 p->nsproxy = NULL;
54 task_unlock(p);
55 put_nsproxy(ns);
58 #endif