linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] signalfd: add ability to return siginfo in a raw format (v2)

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:28:16 +0400
From:	Andrew Vagin <avagin@...allels.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<criu@...nvz.org>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] signalfd: add ability to return siginfo in a raw
 format (v2)

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:35:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/signalfd.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/signalfd.h
> > @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
> >  /* Flags for signalfd4.  */
> >  #define SFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
> >  #define SFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK
> > +#define SFD_RAW O_DIRECT
> >  
> >  struct signalfd_siginfo {
> >  	__u32 ssi_signo;
> 
> As SFD_RAW is being added to the kernel API we should document it. 
> Please keep Michael cc'ed and work with him on getting the manpages
> updated.

Ok

> 
> I usually ask that checkpoint-restart specific code be wrapped in
> #ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE, mainly so we can identify it all
> if/when your project fails and we decide to remove the feature ;) But
> as this patch extends the user API I think it simplifies life if we
> make the extension permanent.  Perhaps this is a bad idea, as
> permanently adding this extension to the API makes it harder to ever
> remove the c/r feature.  

I think CRIU is already enough functional to be successful ;).
It already can dump/restore a Linux Container with Oracle Data Base,
Apache and a few other deamons.

> 
> 
> Proposed fixups.  Please review and test this and check that sparse is
> happy with it.
>
I have tested this patch. All is ok and sparce are happy with it.

Thank you.
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