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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	jeremy@goop.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrey Mirkin <major@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v6][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:43:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223916223.29877.14.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F30315.1070909@fr.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:13 +0200, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> hmm, that's rather complex, because we have to take into account the 
> kernel stack, no ? This is what Andrey was trying to solve in his patchset 
> back in September :
> 
>         http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/3/96
> 
> the restart phase simulates a clone and switch_to to (not) restore the kernel 
> stack. right ? 

Do we ever have to worry about the kernel stack if we simply say that
tasks have to be *in* userspace when we checkpoint them.  If a task is
in an uninterruptable wait state, I'm not sure it's safe to checkpoint
it anyway.

-- Dave

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-13 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08 10:19 Oren Laadan
2008-10-08 10:19 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 1/9] Create syscalls: sys_checkpoint, sys_restart Oren Laadan
2008-10-08 10:19 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 2/9] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart Oren Laadan
2008-10-08 10:19 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 3/9] x86 support for checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-10-10 10:21   ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-10 10:24     ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-08 10:19 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 4/9] Dump memory address space Oren Laadan
2008-10-08 10:19 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 5/9] Restore " Oren Laadan
2008-10-08 15:35   ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-08 10:19 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 6/9] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation Oren Laadan
2008-10-08 10:19 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 7/9] Infrastructure for shared objects Oren Laadan
2008-10-08 10:19 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 8/9] Dump open file descriptors Oren Laadan
2008-10-08 10:19 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 9/9] Restore open file descriprtors Oren Laadan
2008-10-09 12:46 ` [RFC v6][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Ingo Molnar
2008-10-09 12:58   ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-09 13:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-09 13:34       ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-09 13:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-09 16:50           ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-10 15:39             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-13  8:13               ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-13 16:12                 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-15 15:13                   ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-15 23:59                     ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-13 16:43                 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2008-10-15 15:15                   ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-16  0:06                     ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-16 12:35                       ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-16 13:49                         ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-16 22:51                           ` Peter Chubb
2008-10-17  6:30                             ` David Newall
2008-10-20 17:17                               ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-17  6:44                             ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-17  7:08                             ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-09 21:59       ` Greg Kurz

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