Re: [RFC 1/5] user namespaces: Add a user_namespace ascreator/owner of uts_namespace

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:40:11PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> There are also major benefits to have the version of something that is
> >> never freed never going away, because it means you can just reference it
> >> in code.  So while I would be happy to say this is special don't use a
> >> kref and roll the reference counting logic by hand, we aren't
> >> dynamically allocating init_uts_ns any time soon.
> >
> > Why have a reference count at all if it's not needed or used here?
> 
> We have to reference count every other uts namespace.

Ok, that makes sense, then also please dynamically create this one, do
not create a static kref.

thanks,

greg k-h
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