From: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
To: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, arnd@arndb.de, jeremy@goop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v3][PATCH 7/9] Infrastructure for shared objects
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:38:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080904093803.GX14473@hawkmoon.kerlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809040404550.5982@takamine.ncl.cs.columbia.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 04:05:22AM -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
>
> Infrastructure to handle objects that may be shared and referenced by
> multiple tasks or other objects, e..g open files, memory address space
> etc.
>
> The state of shared objects is saved once. On the first encounter, the
> state is dumped and the object is assigned a unique identifier and also
> stored in a hash table (indexed by its physical kenrel address). From
> then on the object will be found in the hash and only its identifier is
> saved.
>
> On restart the identifier is looked up in the hash table; if not found
> then the state is read, the object is created, and added to the hash
> table (this time indexed by its identifier). Otherwise, the object in
> the hash table is used.
>
[...]
> diff --git a/checkpoint/objhash.c b/checkpoint/objhash.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..442b08c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/checkpoint/objhash.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
> +/*
> + * Checkpoint-restart - object hash infrastructure to manage shared objects
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2008 Oren Laadan
> + *
> + * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
> + * License. See the file COPYING in the main directory of the Linux
> + * distribution for more details.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/file.h>
> +#include <linux/hash.h>
> +#include <linux/ckpt.h>
> +
> +struct cr_objref {
> + int objref;
> + void *ptr;
> + unsigned short type;
> + unsigned short flags;
> + struct hlist_node hash;
> +};
> +
> +struct cr_objhash {
> + struct hlist_head *head;
> + int objref_index;
> +};
> +
> +#define CR_OBJHASH_NBITS 10
> +#define CR_OBJHASH_TOTAL (1UL << CR_OBJHASH_NBITS - 1)
Why -1? This makes a total number of 512 entries, which will break below with
hashes in range 0..1023.
> +
> +static void cr_obj_ref_drop(struct cr_objref *obj)
> +{
> + switch (obj->type) {
> + case CR_OBJ_FILE:
> + fput((struct file *) obj->ptr);
> + break;
> + default:
> + BUG();
> + }
> +}
> +
> +static void cr_obj_ref_grab(struct cr_objref *obj)
> +{
> + switch (obj->type) {
> + case CR_OBJ_FILE:
> + get_file((struct file *) obj->ptr);
> + break;
> + default:
> + BUG();
> + }
> +}
> +
> +static void cr_objhash_clear(struct cr_objhash *objhash)
> +{
> + struct hlist_head *h = objhash->head;
> + struct hlist_node *n, *t;
> + struct cr_objref *obj;
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < CR_OBJHASH_TOTAL; i++) {
> + hlist_for_each_entry_safe(obj, n, t, &h[i], hash) {
> + cr_obj_ref_drop(obj);
> + kfree(obj);
> + }
> + }
> +}
> +
> +void cr_objhash_free(struct cr_ctx *ctx)
> +{
> + struct cr_objhash *objhash = ctx->objhash;
> +
> + if (objhash) {
> + cr_objhash_clear(objhash);
> + kfree(objhash->head);
> + kfree(ctx->objhash);
> + ctx->objhash = NULL;
> + }
> +}
> +
> +int cr_objhash_alloc(struct cr_ctx *ctx)
> +{
> + struct cr_objhash *objhash;
> + struct hlist_head *head;
> +
> + objhash = kzalloc(sizeof(*objhash), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!objhash)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + head = kzalloc(CR_OBJHASH_TOTAL * sizeof(*head), GFP_KERNEL);
512 entries allocated
> + if (!head) {
> + kfree(objhash);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> + objhash->head = head;
> + objhash->objref_index = 1;
> +
> + ctx->objhash = objhash;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static struct cr_objref *cr_obj_find_by_ptr(struct cr_ctx *ctx, void *ptr)
> +{
> + struct hlist_head *h;
> + struct hlist_node *n;
> + struct cr_objref *obj;
> +
> + h = &ctx->objhash->head[hash_ptr(ptr, CR_OBJHASH_NBITS)];
access to entries 0..1023
Louis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-04 7:57 [RFC v3][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 8:02 ` [RFC v3][PATCH 1/9] Create syscalls: sys_checkpoint, sys_restart Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 8:37 ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-09-04 14:42 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-04 17:32 ` Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 20:37 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-04 21:05 ` Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 22:03 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-08 15:02 ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-08 16:07 ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-09-04 8:02 ` [RFC v3][PATCH 2/9] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 9:12 ` Louis Rilling
2008-09-04 16:00 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-04 16:03 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-04 16:09 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-04 8:03 ` [RFC v3][PATCH 3/9] x86 support for checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 8:03 ` [RFC v3][PATCH 4/9] Memory management (dump) Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 18:25 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-07 1:54 ` Oren Laadan
2008-09-08 15:55 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-04 8:04 ` [RFC v3][PATCH 5/9] Memory managemnet (restore) Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 18:08 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-07 3:09 ` Oren Laadan
2008-09-08 16:49 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-09 6:01 ` Oren Laadan
2008-09-10 21:42 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-10 22:00 ` Cleanups for: [PATCH " Dave Hansen
2008-09-11 7:37 ` [RFC v3][PATCH " Oren Laadan
2008-09-11 15:38 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-12 16:34 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-04 8:04 ` [RFC v3][PATCH 6/9] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 8:05 ` [RFC v3][PATCH 7/9] Infrastructure for shared objects Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 9:38 ` Louis Rilling [this message]
2008-09-04 14:23 ` Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 18:14 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-04 8:05 ` [RFC v3][PATCH 8/9] File descriprtors (dump) Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 9:47 ` Louis Rilling
2008-09-04 14:43 ` Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 15:01 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-04 18:41 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-07 4:52 ` Oren Laadan
2008-09-08 16:57 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-04 8:06 ` [RFC v3][PATCH 9/9] File descriprtors (restore) Oren Laadan
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