Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:37:54 -0600
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
       "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/8] check files for checkpointability
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Quoting Dave Hansen (dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> 
> Introduce a files_struct counter to indicate whether a particular
> file_struct has ever contained a file which can not be
> checkpointed.  This flag is a one-way trip; once it is set, it may
> not be unset.
> 
> We assume at allocation that a new files_struct is clean and may
> be checkpointed.  However, as soon as it has had its files filled
> from its parent's, we check it for real in __scan_files_for_cr().
> At that point, we mark it if it contained any uncheckpointable
> files.
> 
> We also check each 'struct file' when it is installed in a fd
> slot.  This way, if anyone open()s or managed to dup() an
> unsuppored file, we can catch it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

So on a practical note, Ingo's scheme appears to be paying off.  In
order for any program's files_struct to be checkpointable right now,
it must be statically compiled, else ld.so (I assume) looks up
/proc/$$/status.  So since proc is not checkpointable, the result
is irreversibly non-checkpointable.

So...  does it make sense to mark proc as checkpointable?  Do we
reasonably assume that the same procfile will be available at
restart?

-serge
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