diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b0bf326..1301c08 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #define CLONE_NEWUTS		0x04000000	/* New utsname group? */
 #define CLONE_NEWIPC		0x08000000	/* New ipcs */
 #define CLONE_NEWUSER		0x10000000	/* New user namespace */
+#define CLONE_NEWPID		0x20000000	/* New pid namespace */
 #define CLONE_NEWNET		0x40000000	/* New network namespace */
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index bab3419..f252784 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -973,7 +973,6 @@
 					unsigned long stack_start,
 					struct pt_regs *regs,
 					unsigned long stack_size,
-					int __user *parent_tidptr,
 					int __user *child_tidptr,
 					struct pid *pid)
 {
@@ -1043,11 +1042,6 @@
 	p->did_exec = 0;
 	delayacct_tsk_init(p);	/* Must remain after dup_task_struct() */
 	copy_flags(clone_flags, p);
-	retval = -EFAULT;
-	if (clone_flags & CLONE_PARENT_SETTID)
-		if (put_user(p->pid, parent_tidptr))
-			goto bad_fork_cleanup_delays_binfmt;
-
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->children);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->sibling);
 	p->vfork_done = NULL;
@@ -1289,11 +1283,22 @@
 			__ptrace_link(p, current->parent);
 
 		if (thread_group_leader(p)) {
-			p->signal->tty = current->signal->tty;
-			p->signal->pgrp = task_pgrp_nr(current);
-			set_task_session(p, task_session_nr(current));
-			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID, task_pgrp(current));
-			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID, task_session(current));
+			if (clone_flags & CLONE_NEWPID) {
+				p->nsproxy->pid_ns->child_reaper = p;
+				p->signal->tty = NULL;
+				p->signal->pgrp = p->pid;
+				set_task_session(p, p->pid);
+				attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID, pid);
+				attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID, pid);
+			} else {
+				p->signal->tty = current->signal->tty;
+				p->signal->pgrp = task_pgrp_nr(current);
+				set_task_session(p, task_session_nr(current));
+				attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID,
+						task_pgrp(current));
+				attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_SID,
+						task_session(current));
+			}
 
 			list_add_tail_rcu(&p->tasks, &init_task.tasks);
 			__get_cpu_var(process_counts)++;
@@ -1339,7 +1344,6 @@
 bad_fork_cleanup_cgroup:
 #endif
 	cgroup_exit(p, cgroup_callbacks_done);
-bad_fork_cleanup_delays_binfmt:
 	delayacct_tsk_free(p);
 	if (p->binfmt)
 		module_put(p->binfmt->module);
@@ -1366,7 +1370,7 @@
 	struct task_struct *task;
 	struct pt_regs regs;
 
-	task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(&regs), 0, NULL, NULL,
+	task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(&regs), 0, NULL,
 				&init_struct_pid);
 	if (!IS_ERR(task))
 		init_idle(task, cpu);
@@ -1414,7 +1418,7 @@
 	}
 
 	p = copy_process(clone_flags, stack_start, regs, stack_size,
-			parent_tidptr, child_tidptr, NULL);
+			child_tidptr, NULL);
 	/*
 	 * Do this prior waking up the new thread - the thread pointer
 	 * might get invalid after that point, if the thread exits quickly.
@@ -1422,7 +1426,16 @@
 	if (!IS_ERR(p)) {
 		struct completion vfork;
 
-		nr = pid_nr(task_pid(p));
+		/*
+		 * this is enough to call pid_nr_ns here, but this if
+		 * improves optimisation of regular fork()
+		 */
+		nr = (clone_flags & CLONE_NEWPID) ?
+			task_pid_nr_ns(p, current->nsproxy->pid_ns) :
+				task_pid_vnr(p);
+
+		if (clone_flags & CLONE_PARENT_SETTID)
+			put_user(nr, parent_tidptr);
 
 		if (clone_flags & CLONE_VFORK) {
 			p->vfork_done = &vfork;
diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index c8ef7c2..79f871b 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@
 
 	get_nsproxy(old_ns);
 
-	if (!(flags & (CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC | CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNET)))
+	if (!(flags & (CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC |
+				CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNET)))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 4b17acd..f76097c 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
  * allocation scenario when all but one out of 1 million PIDs possible are
  * allocated already: the scanning of 32 list entries and at most PAGE_SIZE
  * bytes. The typical fastpath is a single successful setbit. Freeing is O(1).
+ *
+ * Pid namespaces:
+ *    (C) 2007 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>, OpenVZ, SWsoft Inc.
+ *    (C) 2007 Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>, IBM
+ *     Many thanks to Oleg Nesterov for comments and help
+ *
  */
 
 #include <linux/mm.h>
@@ -456,8 +462,8 @@
 
 	snprintf(pcache->name, sizeof(pcache->name), "pid_%d", nr_ids);
 	cachep = kmem_cache_create(pcache->name,
-			/* FIXME add numerical ids here */
-			sizeof(struct pid), 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
+			sizeof(struct pid) + (nr_ids - 1) * sizeof(struct upid),
+			0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
 	if (cachep == NULL)
 		goto err_cachep;
 
@@ -475,19 +481,89 @@
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(int level)
+{
+	struct pid_namespace *ns;
+	int i;
+
+	ns = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pid_namespace), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (ns == NULL)
+		goto out;
+
+	ns->pidmap[0].page = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ns->pidmap[0].page)
+		goto out_free;
+
+	ns->pid_cachep = create_pid_cachep(level + 1);
+	if (ns->pid_cachep == NULL)
+		goto out_free_map;
+
+	kref_init(&ns->kref);
+	ns->last_pid = 0;
+	ns->child_reaper = NULL;
+	ns->level = level;
+
+	set_bit(0, ns->pidmap[0].page);
+	atomic_set(&ns->pidmap[0].nr_free, BITS_PER_PAGE - 1);
+
+	for (i = 1; i < PIDMAP_ENTRIES; i++) {
+		ns->pidmap[i].page = 0;
+		atomic_set(&ns->pidmap[i].nr_free, BITS_PER_PAGE);
+	}
+
+	return ns;
+
+out_free_map:
+	kfree(ns->pidmap[0].page);
+out_free:
+	kfree(ns);
+out:
+	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+}
+
+static void destroy_pid_namespace(struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < PIDMAP_ENTRIES; i++)
+		kfree(ns->pidmap[i].page);
+	kfree(ns);
+}
+
 struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *old_ns)
 {
+	struct pid_namespace *new_ns;
+
 	BUG_ON(!old_ns);
-	get_pid_ns(old_ns);
-	return old_ns;
+	new_ns = get_pid_ns(old_ns);
+	if (!(flags & CLONE_NEWPID))
+		goto out;
+
+	new_ns = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	if (flags & CLONE_THREAD)
+		goto out_put;
+
+	new_ns = create_pid_namespace(old_ns->level + 1);
+	if (!IS_ERR(new_ns))
+		new_ns->parent = get_pid_ns(old_ns);
+
+out_put:
+	put_pid_ns(old_ns);
+out:
+	return new_ns;
 }
 
 void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref)
 {
-	struct pid_namespace *ns;
+	struct pid_namespace *ns, *parent;
 
 	ns = container_of(kref, struct pid_namespace, kref);
-	kfree(ns);
+
+	parent = ns->parent;
+	destroy_pid_namespace(ns);
+
+	if (parent != NULL)
+		put_pid_ns(parent);
 }
 
 /*