From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>,
Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Controlling devices and device namespaces
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:13:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120916171316.517ad0fd@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3vuqc5l.fsf@xmission.com>
> At least with a recent modern distro I can't imagine this to be an
> issue. I expect we could have a kernel build option that removed the
> mknod system call and a modern distro wouldn't notice.
A few things beyond named pipes will break. PCMCIA I believe still
depends on ugly mknod hackery of its own. You also need it for some
classes of non detectable device.
Basically though you could.
> For migration with direct access to real hardware devices we must treat
> it as hardware hotunplug. There is nothing else we can do.
That is demonstrably false for a shared bus or a network linked device.
Consider a firewire camera wired to two systems at once. Consider SAN
storage.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-16 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-13 20:58 [RFC] cgroup TODOs Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 9:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-14 17:17 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 9:10 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-09-14 13:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-14 19:29 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 21:51 ` Kay Sievers
[not found] ` <5052E7DF.7040000@parallels.com>
2012-09-14 9:12 ` Li Zefan
2012-09-14 11:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-14 17:59 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 18:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-14 18:33 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 17:43 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-17 8:50 ` Glauber Costa
2012-09-17 17:21 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 11:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-14 12:54 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-09-14 17:53 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 14:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-14 14:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-14 15:14 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-14 21:57 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-17 15:27 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-18 18:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-14 21:39 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-17 15:05 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-17 16:40 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 15:03 ` Michal Hocko
2012-09-19 14:02 ` Michal Hocko
2012-09-19 14:03 ` [PATCH 2.6.32] memcg: warn on deeper hierarchies with use_hierarchy==0 Michal Hocko
2012-09-19 19:38 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-20 13:24 ` Michal Hocko
2012-09-20 22:33 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-21 7:16 ` Michal Hocko
2012-09-19 14:03 ` [PATCH 3.0] " Michal Hocko
2012-09-19 14:05 ` [PATCH 3.2+] " Michal Hocko
2012-09-14 18:07 ` [RFC] cgroup TODOs Vivek Goyal
2012-09-14 18:53 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 19:28 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-14 19:44 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 19:49 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-14 20:39 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-17 8:40 ` Glauber Costa
2012-09-17 17:30 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-17 14:37 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-14 18:36 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2012-09-14 18:54 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-15 2:20 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-09-15 9:27 ` Controlling devices and device namespaces Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-15 22:05 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-09-16 0:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-16 3:31 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-09-16 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2012-09-16 11:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-16 12:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-16 13:32 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-09-16 14:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-16 16:13 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-09-16 17:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-16 16:15 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-09-16 16:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-16 8:19 ` [RFC] cgroup TODOs James Bottomley
2012-09-16 14:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-17 13:21 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2012-09-14 22:03 ` Dhaval Giani
2012-09-14 22:06 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-20 1:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-09-20 18:26 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-20 18:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-09-21 21:40 ` Tejun Heo
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