Public bug reported:

[Impact]

 * Allow setting lower pid_max on per namespace basis, to support legacy
workloads on modern hosts.

 * Cherrypick patches from
https://gitlab.com/brauner/linux/-/commits/pid_max_namespacing/

[Test Plan]

 * Launch lxd container and lower pid_max in the container by doing echo
65536 > /path/to/proc/in/c0/mnt/namespace/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max from
outside of the container

 * Observe that pid_max is lowered inside the container relative the
host


[Where problems could occur]

 * These are out-of-the-tree sauce patches not yet applied upstream,
there appear to be permissions issues inside user namespaces of being
able to self-lower the limit without being cap_sysadmin in the parent
namespace. Implementation upstream may change, with different
permissions and semantics. By default, currently pid_max is very large,
and thus it shouldn't be needed to lower that at all on the host.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Triaged

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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  Provide pid_max namespace support

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