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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
	containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	hch@infradead.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/8] check files for checkpointability
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:58:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236016706.26788.478.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090302174433.GA12708@us.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 11:44 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Which is what we actually do, right?
> 
> Actually we have userspace create the tasks first, and
> then each task calls sys_restart which does restore_files().

Quoting:

http://git.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/?p=linux-cr.git;a=commitdiff;h=3c1b1900f92ed12f5020a7b566065bffda2908d8;hp=7aec1a8f3345bb33c3f93226c895a45ec269bb59

> Restarting of multiple processes expects all restarting tasks to call
> sys_restart(). Once inside the system call, each task will restart
> itself at the same order that they were saved. The internals of the
> syscall will take care of in-kernel synchronization bewteen tasks.

I guess it is OK since everybody sleeps once they enter sys_restart()
until the container init decides it is ready to go.  

-- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-27 20:34 [RFC][PATCH 1/8] kill '_data' in cr_hdr_fd_data name Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/8] breakout fdinfo sprintf() into its own function Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34   ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:56   ` Vegard Nossum
     [not found]     ` <19f34abd0902271256r49a06336rcba56234c06645a7-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-27 21:23       ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 21:23     ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:56   ` Vegard Nossum
2009-02-27 20:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/8] create fs flags to mark c/r supported fs's Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34   ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 21:16   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-27 21:16     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-27 21:20     ` Dave Hansen
     [not found]     ` <20090227211620.GA3326-2ev+ksY9ol182hYKe6nXyg@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-27 21:20       ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/8] file c/r: expose functions to query fs support Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34   ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 21:14   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-02-27 21:14   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-02-27 21:24     ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 21:32       ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 21:32       ` Dave Hansen
     [not found]     ` <20090227211408.GB19872-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-27 21:24       ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-28  1:33   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-02-28  1:33   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-02-27 20:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/8] add f_op for checkpointability Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34   ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-28  2:14   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-02-28  2:14     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
     [not found]     ` <20090228021412.GD19872-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-28  2:51       ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-28  2:51     ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-28 20:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-28 20:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-28 21:37     ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-01 15:19       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-01 15:19       ` Serge E. Hallyn
     [not found]     ` <20090228205329.GB4254-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-28 21:37       ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 17:05       ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 17:05     ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-03 13:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]         ` <20090303131528.GB10931-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-20 21:13           ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-20 21:13         ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-20 21:30           ` Oren Laadan
2009-03-20 21:30           ` Oren Laadan
2009-03-03 13:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-27 20:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mark /dev/null and zero as checkpointable Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34   ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/8] add c/r info to fdinfo Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34   ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/8] check files for checkpointability Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 20:34   ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-28  2:57   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-01 17:00     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-04 23:41     ` Dave Hansen
     [not found]     ` <20090228025743.GA22451-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-01 17:00       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-04 23:41       ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-28  2:57   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-01 19:43   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-01 19:43   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-02 13:37   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-02 15:56     ` Dave Hansen
     [not found]     ` <20090302133754.GA8033-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-02 15:56       ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 15:59       ` Nathan Lynch
2009-03-02 15:59     ` Nathan Lynch
     [not found]       ` <20090302095917.6cfeda55-4v5LP+xe+1byhTdZtsIeww@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-02 16:27         ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 16:28         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-02 16:27       ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 17:22         ` Nathan Lynch
     [not found]           ` <20090302112247.76bb3662-4v5LP+xe+1byhTdZtsIeww@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-02 17:30             ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 17:30           ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 17:44             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-02 17:58               ` Dave Hansen [this message]
     [not found]               ` <20090302174433.GA12708-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-02 17:58                 ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 18:13                 ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 18:13                   ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-02 18:35                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-02 18:35                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-05  8:20                   ` Cedric Le Goater
2009-03-05  8:20                   ` Cedric Le Goater
2009-03-02 17:44             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-02 17:22         ` Nathan Lynch
2009-03-02 16:28       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-02 13:37   ` Serge E. Hallyn

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