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From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, criu@openvz.org, devel@openvz.org,
	xemul@parallels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] pram: persistent over-kexec memory file system
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:41:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F3EA2A.3090905@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1374841763-11958-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@parallels.com>

Il 26/07/2013 14:29, Vladimir Davydov ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> We want to propose a way to upgrade a kernel on a machine without
> restarting all the user-space services. This is to be done with CRIU
> project, but we need help from the kernel to preserve some data in
> memory while doing kexec.
>
> The key point of our implementation is leaving process memory in-place
> during reboot. This should eliminate most io operations the services
> would produce during initialization. To achieve this, we have
> implemented a pseudo file system that preserves its content during
> kexec. We propose saving CRIU dump files to this file system, kexec'ing
> and then restoring the processes in the newly booted kernel.
>

http://pramfs.sourceforge.net/

Marco

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-27 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 12:29 [PATCH RFC] pram: persistent over-kexec memory file system Vladimir Davydov
2013-07-27 15:41 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
2013-07-27 17:35   ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-07-27 17:37     ` Marco Stornelli
2013-07-28 10:05       ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-07-28 11:02         ` Marco Stornelli
2013-07-28 14:31           ` Vladimir Davydov

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