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+#ifndef _LINUX_NSPROXY_H
+#define _LINUX_NSPROXY_H
+
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+
+/*
+ * A structure to contain pointers to all per-process
+ * namespaces - fs (mount), uts, network, sysvipc, etc.
+ *
+ * 'count' is the number of tasks holding a reference.
+ * The count for each namespace, then, will be the number
+ * of nsproxies pointing to it, not the number of tasks.
+ *
+ * The nsproxy is shared by tasks which share all namespaces.
+ * As soon as a single namespace is cloned or unshared, the
+ * nsproxy is copied.
+ */
+struct nsproxy {
+ atomic_t count;
+ spinlock_t nslock;
+};
+extern struct nsproxy init_nsproxy;
+
+struct nsproxy *dup_namespaces(struct nsproxy *orig);
+int copy_namespaces(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk);
+void get_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *tsk);
+void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns);
+
+static inline void put_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->count)) {
+ free_nsproxy(ns);
+ }
+}
+
+static inline void exit_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ struct nsproxy *ns = p->nsproxy;
+ if (ns) {
+ put_nsproxy(ns);
+ p->nsproxy = NULL;
+ }
+}
+#endif