[patch 6/7] vfs: mountinfo: add /proc/<pid>/mountinfo

[mszeredi@suse.cz] rewrite and split big patch into managable chunks

/proc/mounts in its current form lacks important information:

 - propagation state
 - root of mount for bind mounts
 - the st_dev value used within the filesystem
 - identifier for each mount and it's parent

It also suffers from the following problems:

 - not easily extendable
 - ambiguity of mountpoints within a chrooted environment
 - doesn't distinguish between filesystem dependent and independent options
 - doesn't distinguish between per mount and per super block options

This patch introduces /proc/<pid>/mountinfo which attempts to address
all these deficiencies.

Code shared between /proc/<pid>/mounts and /proc/<pid>/mountinfo is
extracted into separate functions.

Thanks to Al Viro for the help in getting the design right.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mnt_namespace.h b/include/linux/mnt_namespace.h
index c078aacc8116..830bbcd449d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mnt_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/mnt_namespace.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ static inline void get_mnt_ns(struct mnt_namespace *ns)
 }
 
 extern const struct seq_operations mounts_op;
+extern const struct seq_operations mountinfo_op;
 extern const struct seq_operations mountstats_op;
 
 #endif