Re: [PATCH 3/7] make CONFIG_CHECKPOINT dependonCONFIG_CHECKPOINT_SUPPORT

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl-eQaUEPhvms7ENvBUuze7eA@public.gmane.org):
> 
> Hi Gordon,
> 
> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Ralph-Gordon Paul (Ralph-Gordon.Paul-4bfl1RV3iZDOEhgYWvzSCYQuADTiUCJX@public.gmane.org):
> >> Ah okay sorry, i used this version: http://git.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/?p=linux-cr.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ckpt-v15
> >>
> >> Is this the official place to download the up to date version ?
> 
> ckpt-v15 branch per-se is a snapshot of the patchset as it was released.
> 
> ckpt-v15-dev is the development branch that is based on ckpt-v15, and is
> probably what you want to use.
> 
> the userspace utilities are in the matching v15-dev in 'user-cr.git'.
> 
> >>
> >> -Gordon
> > 
> > Hi Gordon,
> > 
> > yes, and you were right about needing compat vdso.  Sorry about the
> > inconvenience (since it was my patch).  I was just saying that since
> > Oren has added the underlying code for moving vdso around, there is no
> > reason why we shouldn't complete that support (with 1 line of code)
> > allowing us to remove the dependency on CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO.
> 
> True, no need to keep that dependency. Will remove.
> 
> Note, however, that we still don't handle the case where the contents of
> the VDSO page(s) differ between checkpoint and restart time...  So it's
> on the todo list to at least detect that the format changed.

sigh - yeah, and we still haven't decided how to cleanly solve that,
have we...  (apart from some arch-specific memcmp template/map that
compares the code and not data...)

> That said, that will work in most cases, definitely on the same machine.
> 
> Oren.