linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v6][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

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Message-Id: <1223557122.11830.14.camel@nimitz>
Date:	Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:58:42 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>, jeremy@...p.org,
	arnd@...db.de, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v6][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu> wrote:
> 
> > These patches implement basic checkpoint-restart [CR]. This version 
> > (v6) supports basic tasks with simple private memory, and open files 
> > (regular files and directories only). Changes mainly cleanups. See 
> > original announcements below.
> 
> 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?

-- Dave

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