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* [RFC][PATCH 0/6][cr]: Checkpoint/restart file locks and leases
@ 2010-05-05  5:30 Sukadev Bhattiprolu
  2010-05-05  5:30 ` [RFC][cr][PATCH 1/6] Move file_lock macros into linux/fs.h Sukadev Bhattiprolu
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From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu @ 2010-05-05  5:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Oren Laadan; +Cc: Containers, linux-fsdevel, serue, matthltc, sukadev


This patchset is an early draft of checkpoint/restart of file-locks/leases.

This patchset applies on top of the ckpt-v21-rc7 branch of the Checkpoint/
restart git tree (see http://ckpt.wiki.kernel.org for details).

To checkpoint/restart file-locks and leases we find each lock/lease held
by each fd of the process and save the information about the lock/lease
in the checkpoint-image. When restarting, each process reacquires the
locks it held at checkpoint. When all processes have acquired the locks
one-by-one, the entire process tree is allowed to execute. Any processes
blocked on a lock at the time of checkpoint, restart their system call
and end up blocking on the lock again after the restart.

Checkpoint/restart of file-leases, specially the leases that are being
revoked appear to be more tricky - Patch 6/6 has the details.

	[PATCH  1/6] Move file_lock macros into linux/fs.h
	[PATCH  2/6] Checkpoint file-locks
	[PATCH  3/6] Define flock_set()
	[PATCH  4/6] Restore file-locks
	[PATCH  5/6] Define do_setlease()
	[PATCH  6/6] Checkpoint/restart file leases

This patchset has been gently tested with a few C/R testcases and needs
more testing. Pls let me know your comments or if there are semantics that
might change. Patch 6 identifies a couple of semantics for leases and
suggests a way to preserve them. But maybe there is a cleaner/easier way
to do so.

Note:
	For consistency with current uses of for_each_lock(), this patchset
	uses lock_kernel(), but not sure yet if it is required. 

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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