Re: restarting tests/sleep

[Dave Hansen <dave-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:23 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> 
> Yeah that's insurmountable - notice the stack in the process which was
> fork()ed to be the restarted process topped at bfcab000, while the
> checkpointed stack topped at bfdae000.  You're not allowed to write
> above the stack.  So the only things to do are
> 
>         1. keep trying the restart in the hopes you get a task with
>            stack topping at or above bfdae000
>         2. if the checkpointed stack is too high to be likely to be
>            restartable, generate a new checkpoint image and you
>            should get a lower stack top.
> 
> (Dave, maybe you had other ideas I haven't considered)

Have you tried turning of stack randomization?  It should make the stack
more dependable at exec.  We could also provide a hint somewhere on
exec() where to place the stack.  

-- Dave