ToDo List Kernel (2004.12.05 21:01:02)

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Stuff ToDo for the Kernel

• {005} check tagxid on ro filesystems/mounts
• {025} make VXCs required for CAPs

work in progress (mask capabilities)

• {010} add vfsmount tagxid=xx

(tag)xid=<xid> mounts implemented, but untested

• {002} unwire uid hashes

maybe other hashes are more important

• {020} do some decent profiling
• {020} check inode xid assignment and iattr scope
• {010} CPU virtualization
• {020} vserver child reaper (initpid)

• {020} alternate solution for closing_wait (HZ)

maybe remove the entire patch?

• {020} 32bit syscall compat for x86_64 and friends
• {015} accounting and limits for IPC stuff

shm, msq and locks for now (not all enforced)

• {015} look into acct_update_integrals()

some kind of per context integrals maybe? {this function seems to be gone in 2.6.12-rc2}

• {020} reduce stack usage in some functions like

vs_reboot (424!), vc_ctx_kill (148), vc_set_ipv4root (144),

vs_context_state (104)

• {020} separate token bucket per cpu

• {005} virtualize /proc/locks (get_locks_status)

• {010} maybe move proc_pid_visible() to inline?
• {010} add slab cache for vxi/nxi
• {010} switch from nxi rcu to non-rcu
• {010} check that SOCK_USER_SOCKET is used at all
• {010} fix the inode sizes inode->i_size = 64;
• {010} fix the sys32_sysinfo() for parisc32
• {010} revalidate checks in syscall commands
• {010} do some preprocessor magic for the history

The numbers before the items are related to the priority