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SubjectRe: [RFC v6][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart
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On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 15:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote
> > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > i'm wondering about the following productization aspect: it would be
> > > very useful to applications and users if they knew whether it is safe to
> > > checkpoint a given app. I.e. whether that app has any state that cannot
> > > be stored/restored yet.
> >
> > Absolutely!
> >
> > My first inclination was to do this at checkpoint time: detect and
> > tell users why an app or container can't actually be checkpointed.
> > But, if I get you right, you're talking about something that happens
> > more during the runtime of the app than during the checkpoint. This
> > sounds like a wonderful approach to me, and much better than what I
> > was thinking of.
> >
> > What kind of mechanism do you have in mind?
> >
> > int sys_remap_file_pages(...)
> > {
> > ...
> > oh_crap_we_dont_support_this_yet(current);
> > }
> >
> > Then the oh_crap..() function sets a task flag or something?
>
> yeah, something like that. A key aspect of it is that is has to be very
> low-key on the source code level - we dont want to sprinkle the kernel
> with anything ugly. Perhaps something pretty explicit:
>
> current->flags |= PF_NOCR;

Am I miscounting, or are we out of these suckers on 32-bit platforms?

> as we do the same thing today for certain facilities:
>
> current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
>
> you probably want to hide it behind:
>
> set_current_nocr();

Yeah, that all looks reasonable. Letting this be a dynamic thing where
you can move back and forth between the two states would make a lot of
sense too. But, for now, I guess it can be a one-way trip.

I'll cook something up real fast.

-- Dave



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