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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v10][PATCH 08/13] Dump open file descriptors
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:19:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081128101919.GO28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227747884-14150-9-git-send-email-orenl@cs.columbia.edu>

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:04:39PM -0500, Oren Laadan wrote:
> +int cr_scan_fds(struct files_struct *files, int **fdtable)
> +{
> +	struct fdtable *fdt;
> +	int *fds;
> +	int i, n = 0;
> +	int tot = CR_DEFAULT_FDTABLE;
> +
> +	fds = kmalloc(tot * sizeof(*fds), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!fds)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * We assume that the target task is frozen (or that we checkpoint
> +	 * ourselves), so we can safely proceed after krealloc() from where
> +	 * we left off; in the worst cases restart will fail.
> +	 */

Task may be frozen, but it may share the table with any number of other
tasks...

> +	spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	fdt = files_fdtable(files);
> +	for (i = 0; i < fdt->max_fds; i++) {
> +		if (!fcheck_files(files, i))
> +			continue;
> +		if (n == tot) {
> +			/*
> +			 * fcheck_files() is safe with drop/re-acquire
> +			 * of the lock, because it tests:  fd < max_fds
> +			 */
> +			spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
> +			rcu_read_unlock();
> +			tot *= 2;	/* won't overflow: kmalloc will fail */
> +			fds = krealloc(fds, tot * sizeof(*fds), GFP_KERNEL);
> +			if (!fds)
> +				return -ENOMEM;
> +			rcu_read_lock();
> +			spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
> +		}
> +		fds[n++] = i;
> +	}
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
> +	spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
> +
> +	*fdtable = fds;
> +	return n;
> +}

> +	switch (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) {
> +	case S_IFREG:
> +		fd_type = CR_FD_FILE;
> +		break;
> +	case S_IFDIR:
> +		fd_type = CR_FD_DIR;
> +		break;
> +	case S_IFLNK:
> +		fd_type = CR_FD_LINK;

Opened symlinks?  May I have whatever you'd been smoking, please?

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-28 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-27  1:04 [RFC v10][PATCH 00/13] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 01/13] Create syscalls: sys_checkpoint, sys_restart Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 02/13] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation Oren Laadan
2008-11-28 10:45   ` Al Viro
2008-12-01 18:15     ` Dave Hansen
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 03/13] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 04/13] x86 support for checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 05/13] Dump memory address space Oren Laadan
2008-11-28 10:53   ` Al Viro
2008-12-01 18:00     ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 20:57       ` Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 06/13] Restore " Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 07/13] Infrastructure for shared objects Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 08/13] Dump open file descriptors Oren Laadan
2008-11-28 10:19   ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-12-01 17:47     ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 20:23       ` Oren Laadan
2008-12-01 20:51         ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 21:02           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-01 21:25             ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 21:20           ` Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 09/13] Restore open file descriprtors Oren Laadan
2008-11-28 11:27   ` Al Viro
2008-12-01 19:22     ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 20:41       ` Oren Laadan
2008-12-01 20:54         ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 21:00           ` Oren Laadan
2008-12-01 21:07             ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-02  1:31               ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-02  1:12             ` Dave Hansen
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 10/13] External checkpoint of a task other than ourself Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 11/13] Track in-kernel when we expect checkpoint/restart to work Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 12/13] Checkpoint multiple processes Oren Laadan
2008-11-27  1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 13/13] Restart " Oren Laadan
2008-12-03 23:58 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 00/13] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Serge E. Hallyn

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