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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 18:42:34 -0400
From:	Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
CC:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	xemul@...allels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/38] C/R: core stuff

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 06:44:36PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan@...il.com):
>>> And since you guys showed that just idea of in-kernel checkpointing is not
>>> rejected outright, it doesn't mean that you can drag every single idea too.
>> Can you rephrase here?  I have no idea what you mean by 'drag every single
>> idea'
> 
>   									complexity
>  +-|------------------------------------------------|----------------------|-->
> hypervisor C/R					in-kernel C/R	C/R for unpriviledged
> 								C/R with "leaks"
> 

c/r for unprivileged users is indeed more complex - requires more care.
Keep in mind, however, that most of that are sanity checks that we would
like to have in the code anyway.

c/r with "leaks" is actually a subset of the code that prevents leaks:
simply comment out the leak detection :)

Oren.

> I personally thought in-kernel C/R will be rejected outright, but it wasn't.
> This in theory doesn't mean other two issues should be accepted.
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