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* [RFC][PATCH 0/7 + tools] Checkpoint/restore mostly in the userspace
@ 2011-07-15 13:45 Pavel Emelyanov
       [not found] ` <4E204466.8010204-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 68+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Emelyanov @ 2011-07-15 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nathan Lynch, Oren Laadan, Daniel Lezcano, Serge Hallyn,
	Tejun Heo
  Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov, Linux Containers, Glauber Costa

Hi guys!

There have already been made many attempts to have the checkpoint/restore functionality
in Linux, but as far as I can see there's still no final solutions that suits most of
the interested people. The main concern about the previous approaches as I see it was
about - all that stuff was supposed to sit in the kernel thus creating various problems.

I'd like to bring this subject back again proposing the way of how to implement c/r
mostly in the userspace with the reasonable help of a kernel.


That said, I propose to start with very basic set of objects to c/r that can work with

* x86_64 tasks (subtree) which includes
   - registers
   - TLS
   - memory of all kinds (file and anon both shared and private)
* open regular files
* pipes (with data in it)

Core idea:

The core idea of the restore process is to implement the binary handler that can execve-ute
image files recreating the register and the memory state of a task. Restoring the process 
tree and opening files is done completely in the user space, i.e. when restoring the subtree
of processes I first fork all the tasks in respective order, then open required files and 
then call execve() to restore registers and memory.

The checkpointing process is quite simple - all we need about processes can be read from /proc
except for several things - registers and private memory. In current implementation to get 
them I introduce the /proc/<pid>/dump file which produces the file that can be executed by the
described above binfmt. Additionally I introduce the /proc/<pid>/mfd/ dir with info about
mappings. It is populated with symbolc links with names equal to vma->vm_start and pointing to
mapped files (including anon shared which are tmpfs ones). Thus we can open some task's
/proc/<pid>/mfd/<address> link and find out the mapped file inode (to check for sharing) and
if required map one and read the contents of anon shared memory.

Other minor stuff is in patches and mostly tools. The set is for linux-2.6.39. The current
implementation is not yet well tested and has many other defects, but demonstrates the idea. 

What do you think? Does the support from kernel of the proposed type suit us?

Thanks,
Pavel

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2011-07-15 13:45 [RFC][PATCH 0/7 + tools] Checkpoint/restore mostly in the userspace Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-15 13:45   ` [PATCH 0/1] proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/mfd/ directory Pavel Emelyanov
     [not found]     ` <4E20448A.5010207-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-07-21  7:21       ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-15 13:46   ` [PATCH 2/7] vfs: Introduce the fd closing helper Pavel Emelyanov
     [not found]     ` <4E2044A7.4030103-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-07-21 15:47       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-07-15 13:46   ` [PATCH 3/7] proc: Introduce the Children: line in /proc/<pid>/status Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-21  6:54       ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-23  8:06           ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-23  8:41               ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-23  8:45                   ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-23  8:50                       ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-23  8:51                           ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-07-21 15:54       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-07-15 13:47   ` [PATCH 4/7] vfs: Add ->statfs callback for pipefs Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-21  6:59       ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-21 15:59       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-07-15 13:47   ` [PATCH 5/7] clone: Introduce the CLONE_CHILD_USEPID functionality Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-21 16:04       ` Serge E. Hallyn
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2011-07-22 23:08           ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-23  8:09               ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-07-15 13:47   ` [PATCH 6/7] proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/dump file Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-16 22:57       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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2011-07-17  8:06           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-21  6:44       ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-23  8:11           ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-23  8:37               ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-23  8:49                   ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-23  8:58                       ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-15 13:48   ` [PATCH 7/7] binfmt: Introduce the binfmt_img exec handler Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-21  6:51       ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-22 22:46           ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-23  8:17               ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-23  8:45                   ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-23  8:51                       ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-23  9:04                           ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-15 13:49   ` [TOOLS] To make use of the patches Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-22 23:45       ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-23  8:32           ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2011-07-27 23:00               ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-28  8:23                   ` James Bottomley
2011-07-23  0:40       ` Reply #2: " Matt Helsley
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2011-07-23  8:33           ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-07-15 15:01   ` [RFC][PATCH 0/7 + tools] Checkpoint/restore mostly in the userspace Tejun Heo
2011-07-18 13:27   ` Serge E. Hallyn
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2011-07-23  8:43       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-07-23  0:25   ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-23  3:29       ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-23  4:58           ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-26 18:11               ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-26 22:45                   ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-26 23:07                       ` Matt Helsley
2011-07-23  3:53       ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-26 22:59           ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-26 23:46               ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-27  0:53                   ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-27 10:12                       ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-27 22:26                           ` Matt Helsley
2011-07-23  5:10       ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-26 22:02           ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-26 22:21               ` Tejun Heo
     [not found]                 ` <20110726222109.GB28497-9pTldWuhBndy/B6EtB590w@public.gmane.org>
2011-07-27  0:06                   ` Matt Helsley
     [not found]                     ` <20110727000651.GA15501-52DBMbEzqgQ/wnmkkaCWp/UQ3DHhIser@public.gmane.org>
2011-07-27 12:01                       ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-27 21:35                           ` Matt Helsley
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2011-07-28  7:21                               ` Tejun Heo
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2011-07-28  7:23                                   ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-28  8:37                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-07-28  9:10                                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-23  8:39       ` Pavel Emelyanov

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