From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] kernel-based checkpoint restart
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:25:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808081125.12706.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080807224033.FFB3A2C1@kernel>
On Friday 08 August 2008, Dave Hansen wrote:
> These patches are from Oren Laaden. I've refactored them
> a bit to make them a wee bit more reviewable. I think this
> separates out the per-arch bits pretty well. It should also
> be at least build-bisetable.
Cool stuff
> ============================== ckpt.c ================================
>
> #define _GNU_SOURCE /* or _BSD_SOURCE or _SVID_SOURCE */
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <asm/unistd_32.h>
> #include <sys/syscall.h>
Note that asm/unistd_32.h is not portable, you should use asm/unistd.h
in the example.
> pid_t pid = getpid();
> int ret;
>
> ret = syscall(__NR_checkpoint, pid, STDOUT_FILENO, 0);
Interface-wise, I would consider checkpointing yourself signficantly
different from checkpointing some other thread. If checkpointing
yourself is the common case, it probably makes sense to allow passing
of pid=0 for this.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-08 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-07 22:40 [RFC][PATCH 0/4] kernel-based checkpoint restart Dave Hansen
2008-08-07 22:40 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] checkpoint-restart: general infrastructure Dave Hansen
2008-08-08 9:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-08 18:50 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-08 20:59 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-08 22:17 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-08 23:27 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-08 22:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-14 8:09 ` [Devel] " Pavel Emelyanov
2008-08-14 15:16 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-08 22:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-08 22:26 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-08 22:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-09 0:43 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-09 6:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-09 13:39 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-11 15:07 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-08-11 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-14 5:53 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-14 15:12 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-20 21:40 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-11 15:22 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-08-11 16:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-11 17:11 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-11 19:48 ` checkpoint/restart ABI Dave Hansen
2008-08-11 21:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-11 23:14 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-08-11 23:23 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-21 5:56 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-21 8:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-21 15:43 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-11 21:54 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-11 23:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-11 23:54 ` Peter Chubb
2008-08-12 14:49 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-08-28 23:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-08-12 15:11 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-12 14:58 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-12 16:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-12 16:46 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-12 17:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-20 21:52 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-20 21:54 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-20 22:11 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-11 18:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] checkpoint-restart: general infrastructure Jonathan Corbet
2008-08-11 18:38 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-12 3:44 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-18 9:26 ` [Devel] " Pavel Emelyanov
2008-08-20 19:10 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-07 22:40 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4] checkpoint/restart: x86 support Dave Hansen
2008-08-08 12:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-08 20:28 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-08 22:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-08 23:04 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-09 0:38 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-09 1:20 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-09 2:20 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-09 2:35 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-10 14:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-11 15:36 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-11 16:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-09 6:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-07 22:40 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] checkpoint/restart: memory management Dave Hansen
2008-08-08 12:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-07 22:40 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/4] introduce sys_checkpoint and sys_restore Dave Hansen
2008-08-08 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-08 20:33 ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-08 9:25 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2008-08-08 18:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/4] kernel-based checkpoint restart Dave Hansen
2008-08-08 18:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-08 19:44 ` Oren Laadan
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