Linux Container Development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
	<sukadev-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Containers
	<containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: user-cr: Extra unshare() calls ?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:44:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100312144411.GA9783@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100312015823.GB6444-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Quoting Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org):
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu [sukadev-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org] wrote:
> | Serge E. Hallyn [serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org] wrote:
> | | Quoting Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org):
> | | > 
> | | > Came across this while testing LXC.
> | | > 
> | | > 
> | | > 1. Does ckpt_remount_proc() need to unshare() ? Or can we have the
> | | >    clone() that calls __ckpt_coordinator() clone with CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS
> | | >    instead ?
> | | > 
> | | >    The problem with the unshare() in ckpt_remount_proc() is that it
> | | >    creates an extra level in cgroup hierarchy (see below) after restart.
> | | >    So applications expecting the cgroup hierarchy before chckpoint will
> | | >    be surprised.
> | | > 
> | | > 2. When --mount-pty (or --mntns) is specified, do we need to unshare() 
> | | >    in the parent process ? Considering only the full-container restart
> | | >    for now (ignore self-restart and subtree restart), can we just
> | | >    specify (CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS) at the time of creating the first
> | | >    restarted process ?
> | | 
> | | And then move remounting of devpts into ckpt_remount_proc() called
> | | from __ckpt_coordinator() as well?
> | 
> | Yes, I missed that in the hack.
> 
> Here is a more involved fix, but not sure if there is a more efficient
> way to solve.

I don't know what you mean by more efficient - this looks good to me.
(Apart from probably also pulling the self-restart stuff off into a helper)

-serge

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-12 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08 20:13 user-cr: Extra unshare() calls ? Sukadev Bhattiprolu
     [not found] ` <20100308201338.GA16446-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-08 20:58   ` Serge E. Hallyn
     [not found]     ` <20100308205851.GB21490-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-08 21:11       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
     [not found]         ` <20100308211135.GB14607-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-12  1:58           ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
     [not found]             ` <20100312015823.GB6444-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-12 14:44               ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100312144411.GA9783@us.ibm.com \
    --to=serue-r/jw6+rmf7hqt0dzr+alfa@public.gmane.org \
    --cc=containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org \
    --cc=sukadev-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox