[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, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 518ebe6..2cd920f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Table of Contents
   2.13	/proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
   2.14	/proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields
   2.15	/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings
+  2.16	/proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
 
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 Preface
@@ -2348,4 +2349,35 @@ For example:
   $ echo 0x7 > /proc/self/coredump_filter
   $ ./some_program
 
+2.16	/proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+This file contains lines of the form:
+
+36 35 98:0 /mnt1 /mnt2 rw,noatime master:1 - ext3 /dev/root rw,errors=continue
+(1)(2)(3)   (4)   (5)      (6)      (7)   (8) (9)   (10)         (11)
+
+(1) mount ID:  unique identifier of the mount (may be reused after umount)
+(2) parent ID:  ID of parent (or of self for the top of the mount tree)
+(3) major:minor:  value of st_dev for files on filesystem
+(4) root:  root of the mount within the filesystem
+(5) mount point:  mount point relative to the process's root
+(6) mount options:  per mount options
+(7) optional fields:  zero or more fields of the form "tag[:value]"
+(8) separator:  marks the end of the optional fields
+(9) filesystem type:  name of filesystem of the form "type[.subtype]"
+(10) mount source:  filesystem specific information or "none"
+(11) super options:  per super block options
+
+Parsers should ignore all unrecognised optional fields.  Currently the
+possible optional fields are:
+
+shared:X  mount is shared in peer group X
+master:X  mount is slave to peer group X
+unbindable  mount is unbindable
+
+For more information on mount propagation see:
+
+  Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
+
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