diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
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+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
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+/*
+ * Pid namespaces
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *    (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/pid.h>
+#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
+
+#define BITS_PER_PAGE		(PAGE_SIZE*8)
+
+struct pid_cache {
+	int nr_ids;
+	char name[16];
+	struct kmem_cache *cachep;
+	struct list_head list;
+};
+
+static LIST_HEAD(pid_caches_lh);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(pid_caches_mutex);
+static struct kmem_cache *pid_ns_cachep;
+
+/*
+ * creates the kmem cache to allocate pids from.
+ * @nr_ids: the number of numerical ids this pid will have to carry
+ */
+
+static struct kmem_cache *create_pid_cachep(int nr_ids)
+{
+	struct pid_cache *pcache;
+	struct kmem_cache *cachep;
+
+	mutex_lock(&pid_caches_mutex);
+	list_for_each_entry(pcache, &pid_caches_lh, list)
+		if (pcache->nr_ids == nr_ids)
+			goto out;
+
+	pcache = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pid_cache), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (pcache == NULL)
+		goto err_alloc;
+
+	snprintf(pcache->name, sizeof(pcache->name), "pid_%d", nr_ids);
+	cachep = kmem_cache_create(pcache->name,
+			sizeof(struct pid) + (nr_ids - 1) * sizeof(struct upid),
+			0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
+	if (cachep == NULL)
+		goto err_cachep;
+
+	pcache->nr_ids = nr_ids;
+	pcache->cachep = cachep;
+	list_add(&pcache->list, &pid_caches_lh);
+out:
+	mutex_unlock(&pid_caches_mutex);
+	return pcache->cachep;
+
+err_cachep:
+	kfree(pcache);
+err_alloc:
+	mutex_unlock(&pid_caches_mutex);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(int level)
+{
+	struct pid_namespace *ns;
+	int i;
+
+	ns = kmem_cache_alloc(pid_ns_cachep, 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:
+	kmem_cache_free(pid_ns_cachep, 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);
+	kmem_cache_free(pid_ns_cachep, ns);
+}
+
+struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *old_ns)
+{
+	struct pid_namespace *new_ns;
+
+	BUG_ON(!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, *parent;
+
+	ns = container_of(kref, struct pid_namespace, kref);
+
+	parent = ns->parent;
+	destroy_pid_namespace(ns);
+
+	if (parent != NULL)
+		put_pid_ns(parent);
+}
+
+void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
+{
+	int nr;
+	int rc;
+
+	/*
+	 * The last thread in the cgroup-init thread group is terminating.
+	 * Find remaining pid_ts in the namespace, signal and wait for them
+	 * to exit.
+	 *
+	 * Note:  This signals each threads in the namespace - even those that
+	 * 	  belong to the same thread group, To avoid this, we would have
+	 * 	  to walk the entire tasklist looking a processes in this
+	 * 	  namespace, but that could be unnecessarily expensive if the
+	 * 	  pid namespace has just a few processes. Or we need to
+	 * 	  maintain a tasklist for each pid namespace.
+	 *
+	 */
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	nr = next_pidmap(pid_ns, 1);
+	while (nr > 0) {
+		kill_proc_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, nr);
+		nr = next_pidmap(pid_ns, nr);
+	}
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+
+	do {
+		clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
+		rc = sys_wait4(-1, NULL, __WALL, NULL);
+	} while (rc != -ECHILD);
+
+
+	/* Child reaper for the pid namespace is going away */
+	pid_ns->child_reaper = NULL;
+	return;
+}
+
+static __init int pid_namespaces_init(void)
+{
+	pid_ns_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(pid_namespace, SLAB_PANIC);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+__initcall(pid_namespaces_init);