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From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, mingo@elte.hu,
	mpm@selenic.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	xemul@openvz.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How much of a mess does OpenVZ make? ;) Was: What can OpenVZ do?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:34:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090313053458.GA28833@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <604427e00903122129y37ad791aq5fe7ef2552415da9@mail.gmail.com>

Ying Han [yinghan@google.com] wrote:
| Hi Serge:
| I made a patch based on Oren's tree recently which implement a new
| syscall clone_with_pid. I tested with checkpoint/restart process tree
| and it works as expected.

Yes, I think we had a version of clone() with pid a while ago.

But it would be easier to review if you break it up into smaller
patches. and remove the unnecessary diffs in this patch like...


| This patch has some hack in it which i made a copy of libc's clone and
| made modifications of passing one more argument(pid number). I will
| try to clean up the code and do more testing.
| 
| New syscall clone_with_pid
| Implement a new syscall which clone a thread with a preselected pid number.
| 
| clone_with_pid(child_func, child_stack + CHILD_STACK - 16,
| 			CLONE_WITH_PID|SIGCHLD, pid, NULL);
| 
| Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
| 
| diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
| index 87803da..b5a1b03 100644
| --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
| +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
| @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ asmlinkage int sys_fork(struct pt_regs);
|  asmlinkage int sys_clone(struct pt_regs);
|  asmlinkage int sys_vfork(struct pt_regs);
|  asmlinkage int sys_execve(struct pt_regs);
| +asmlinkage int sys_clone_with_pid(struct pt_regs);
| 
|  /* kernel/signal_32.c */
|  asmlinkage int sys_sigsuspend(int, int, old_sigset_t);
| diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32
| index a5f9e09..f10ca0e 100644
| --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
| +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
| @@ -340,6 +340,7 @@
|  #define __NR_inotify_init1	332
|  #define __NR_checkpoint		333
|  #define __NR_restart		334
| +#define __NR_clone_with_pid	335
| 
|  #ifdef __KERNEL__
| 
| diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
| index 0a1302f..88ae634 100644
| --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
| +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
| @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
|  /*
|   * This file handles the architecture-dependent parts of process handling..
|   */
| -

these

|  #include <stdarg.h>
| 
|  #include <linux/cpu.h>
| @@ -652,6 +651,28 @@ asmlinkage int sys_clone(struct pt_regs regs)
|  	return do_fork(clone_flags, newsp, &regs, 0, parent_tidptr, child_tidptr);
|  }
| 
| +/**
| + * sys_clone_with_pid - clone a thread with pre-select pid number.
| + */
| +asmlinkage int sys_clone_with_pid(struct pt_regs regs)
| +{
| +	unsigned long clone_flags;
| +	unsigned long newsp;
| +	int __user *parent_tidptr, *child_tidptr;
| +	pid_t pid_nr;
| +
| +	clone_flags = regs.bx;
| +	newsp = regs.cx;
| +	parent_tidptr = (int __user *)regs.dx;
| +	child_tidptr = (int __user *)regs.di;
| +	pid_nr = regs.bp;
| +
| +	if (!newsp)
| +		newsp = regs.sp;
| +	return do_fork(clone_flags, newsp, &regs, pid_nr, parent_tidptr,
| +			child_tidptr);
| +}
| +
|  /*
|   * This is trivial, and on the face of it looks like it
|   * could equally well be done in user mode.
| diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_tabl
| index 5543136..5191117 100644
| --- a/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
| +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
| @@ -334,3 +334,4 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
|  	.long sys_inotify_init1
|  	.long sys_checkpoint
|  	.long sys_restart
| +	.long sys_clone_with_pid
| diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/checkpoint.c b/arch/x86/mm/checkpoint.c
| index 50bde9a..a4aee65 100644
| --- a/arch/x86/mm/checkpoint.c
| +++ b/arch/x86/mm/checkpoint.c
| @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
|   *  License.  See the file COPYING in the main directory of the Linux
|   *  distribution for more details.
|   */
| -
|  #include <asm/desc.h>
|  #include <asm/i387.h>
| 
| diff --git a/checkpoint/checkpoint.c b/checkpoint/checkpoint.c
| index 64155de..b7de611 100644
| --- a/checkpoint/checkpoint.c
| +++ b/checkpoint/checkpoint.c
| @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
|   *  distribution for more details.
|   */
| 
| +#define DEBUG
|  #include <linux/version.h>
|  #include <linux/sched.h>
|  #include <linux/ptrace.h>
| @@ -564,3 +565,4 @@ int do_checkpoint(struct cr_ctx *ctx, pid_t pid)
|   out:
|  	return ret;
|  }
| +
| diff --git a/checkpoint/ckpt_file.c b/checkpoint/ckpt_file.c
| index e3097ac..a8c5ad5 100644
| --- a/checkpoint/ckpt_file.c
| +++ b/checkpoint/ckpt_file.c
| @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
|   *  License.  See the file COPYING in the main directory of the Linux
|   *  distribution for more details.
|   */
| -
| +#define DEBUG
|  #include <linux/kernel.h>
|  #include <linux/sched.h>
|  #include <linux/file.h>
| diff --git a/checkpoint/ckpt_mem.c b/checkpoint/ckpt_mem.c
| index 4925ff2..ca5840b 100644
| --- a/checkpoint/ckpt_mem.c
| +++ b/checkpoint/ckpt_mem.c
| @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
|   *  License.  See the file COPYING in the main directory of the Linux
|   *  distribution for more details.
|   */
| -
| +#define DEBUG
|  #include <linux/kernel.h>
|  #include <linux/sched.h>
|  #include <linux/slab.h>
| diff --git a/checkpoint/restart.c b/checkpoint/restart.c
| index 7ec4de4..30e43c2 100644
| --- a/checkpoint/restart.c
| +++ b/checkpoint/restart.c
| @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
|   *  distribution for more details.
|   */
| 
| +#define DEBUG
|  #include <linux/version.h>
|  #include <linux/sched.h>
|  #include <linux/wait.h>
| @@ -242,7 +243,7 @@ static int cr_read_task_struct(struct cr_ctx *ctx)
|  		memcpy(t->comm, buf, min(hh->task_comm_len, TASK_COMM_LEN));
|  	}
|  	kfree(buf);
| -
| +	pr_debug("read task %s\n", t->comm);
|  	/* FIXME: restore remaining relevant task_struct fields */
|   out:
|  	cr_hbuf_put(ctx, sizeof(*hh));
| diff --git a/checkpoint/rstr_file.c b/checkpoint/rstr_file.c
| index f44b081..755e40e 100644
| --- a/checkpoint/rstr_file.c
| +++ b/checkpoint/rstr_file.c
| @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
|   *  License.  See the file COPYING in the main directory of the Linux
|   *  distribution for more details.
|   */
| -
| +#define DEBUG
|  #include <linux/kernel.h>
|  #include <linux/sched.h>
|  #include <linux/fs.h>
| diff --git a/checkpoint/rstr_mem.c b/checkpoint/rstr_mem.c
| index 4d5ce1a..8330468 100644
| --- a/checkpoint/rstr_mem.c
| +++ b/checkpoint/rstr_mem.c
| @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
|   *  License.  See the file COPYING in the main directory of the Linux
|   *  distribution for more details.
|   */
| -
| +#define DEBUG
|  #include <linux/kernel.h>
|  #include <linux/sched.h>
|  #include <linux/fcntl.h>
| diff --git a/checkpoint/sys.c b/checkpoint/sys.c
| index f26b0c6..d1a5394 100644
| --- a/checkpoint/sys.c
| +++ b/checkpoint/sys.c
| @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
|   *  License.  See the file COPYING in the main directory of the Linux
|   *  distribution for more details.
|   */
| -
| +#define DEBUG
|  #include <linux/sched.h>
|  #include <linux/nsproxy.h>
|  #include <linux/kernel.h>
| @@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_checkpoint(pid_t pid, int fd, unsigned
|  		return PTR_ERR(ctx);
| 
|  	ret = do_checkpoint(ctx, pid);
| -
|  	if (!ret)
|  		ret = ctx->crid;
| 
| @@ -304,3 +303,4 @@ asmlinkage long sys_restart(int crid, int fd, unsigned lon
|  	cr_ctx_put(ctx);
|  	return ret;
|  }
| +
| diff --git a/include/linux/checkpoint.h b/include/linux/checkpoint.h
| index 217cf6e..bc2c202 100644
| --- a/include/linux/checkpoint.h
| +++ b/include/linux/checkpoint.h
| @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ extern int cr_write_files(struct cr_ctx *ctx, struct task_
|  extern int do_restart(struct cr_ctx *ctx, pid_t pid);
|  extern int cr_read_mm(struct cr_ctx *ctx);
|  extern int cr_read_files(struct cr_ctx *ctx);
| -
|  #ifdef pr_fmt
|  #undef pr_fmt
|  #endif
| diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h
| index d7e98ff..86e2f61 100644
| --- a/include/linux/pid.h
| +++ b/include/linux/pid.h
| @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ extern struct pid *find_get_pid(int nr);
|  extern struct pid *find_ge_pid(int nr, struct pid_namespace *);
|  int next_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns, int last);
| 
| -extern struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns);
| +extern struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns, pid_t pid_nr);
|  extern void free_pid(struct pid *pid);
| 
|  /*
| diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
| index 0150e90..7fb4e28 100644
| --- a/include/linux/sched.h
| +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
| @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
|  #define CLONE_NEWPID		0x20000000	/* New pid namespace */
|  #define CLONE_NEWNET		0x40000000	/* New network namespace */
|  #define CLONE_IO		0x80000000	/* Clone io context */
| +#define CLONE_WITH_PID		0x00001000	/* Clone with pre-select PID */
| 
|  /*
|   * Scheduling policies
| diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
| index 2d8be7e..4baf651 100644
| --- a/kernel/exit.c
| +++ b/kernel/exit.c
| @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
|   *
|   *  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
|   */
| -
| +#define DEBUG
|  #include <linux/mm.h>
|  #include <linux/slab.h>
|  #include <linux/interrupt.h>
| @@ -1676,6 +1676,7 @@ static long do_wait(enum pid_type type, struct pid *pid,
|  	DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
|  	struct task_struct *tsk;
|  	int retval;
| +	int level;

and this (level is not used).
| 
|  	trace_sched_process_wait(pid);
| 
| @@ -1708,7 +1709,6 @@ repeat:
|  			retval = tsk_result;
|  			goto end;
|  		}
| -
|  		if (options & __WNOTHREAD)
|  			break;
|  		tsk = next_thread(tsk);
| @@ -1817,7 +1817,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_wait4(pid_t upid, int __user *stat_a
|  		type = PIDTYPE_PID;
|  		pid = find_get_pid(upid);
|  	}
| -
|  	ret = do_wait(type, pid, options | WEXITED, NULL, stat_addr, ru);
|  	put_pid(pid);
| 
| diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
| index 085ce56..262ae1e 100644
| --- a/kernel/fork.c
| +++ b/kernel/fork.c
| @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
|   * Fork is rather simple, once you get the hang of it, but the memory
|   * management can be a bitch. See 'mm/memory.c': 'copy_page_range()'
|   */
| -
| +#define DEBUG
|  #include <linux/slab.h>
|  #include <linux/init.h>
|  #include <linux/unistd.h>
| @@ -959,10 +959,19 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long cl
|  	int retval;
|  	struct task_struct *p;
|  	int cgroup_callbacks_done = 0;
| +	pid_t clone_pid = stack_size;
| 
|  	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS)) == (CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS))
|  		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
| 
| +	/* We only allow the clone_with_pid when a new pid namespace is
| +	 * created. FIXME: how to restrict it.

Not sure why CLONE_NEWPID is required to set pid_nr. In fact with CLONE_NEWPID,
by definition, pid_nr should be 1. Also, what happens if a container has
more than one process - where the second process has a pid_nr > 2 ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-27 17:07 [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:07 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 01/14] Create syscalls: sys_checkpoint, sys_restart Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:20   ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 02/14] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 03/14] Make file_pos_read/write() public Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 04/14] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 05/14] x86 support for checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2009-02-24  7:47   ` Nathan Lynch
2009-02-24 16:06     ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-18  7:21     ` Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 06/14] Dump memory address space Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 07/14] Restore " Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 08/14] Infrastructure for shared objects Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 09/14] Dump open file descriptors Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 10/14] Restore open file descriprtors Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 11/14] External checkpoint of a task other than ourself Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 12/14] Track in-kernel when we expect checkpoint/restart to work Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 13/14] Checkpoint multiple processes Oren Laadan
2009-01-27 17:08 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 14/14] Restart " Oren Laadan
2009-02-10 17:05 ` [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Dave Hansen
2009-02-11 22:14   ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-12  9:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-12 18:11       ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-12 20:48         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-02-13 10:20         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-12 18:11     ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-12 19:30       ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-12 19:42         ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-12 21:51           ` What can OpenVZ do? Dave Hansen
2009-02-12 22:10             ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-12 23:04               ` How much of a mess does OpenVZ make? ;) Was: " Dave Hansen
2009-02-26 15:57                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-10 21:53                   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-10 23:28                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-11  8:26                     ` Cedric Le Goater
2009-03-12 14:53                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-12 21:01                         ` Greg Kurz
2009-03-12 21:21                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-13  4:29                             ` Ying Han
2009-03-13  5:34                               ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu [this message]
2009-03-13  6:19                                 ` Ying Han
2009-03-13 17:27                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-13 19:02                                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-13 19:35                                   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-13 21:01                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-13 21:51                                       ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-13 22:15                                         ` Oren Laadan
2009-03-14  0:27                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-14  8:12                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-16 22:33                                               ` Kevin Fox
2009-03-19 21:19                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-14  0:20                                       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-14  8:25                                         ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]                                           ` <20090314082532.GB16436-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-14 17:11                                             ` Joseph Ruscio
2009-03-16  6:01                                           ` Oren Laadan
2009-03-13 20:48                                   ` Mike Waychison
2009-03-13 22:35                                     ` Oren Laadan
2009-03-18 18:54                                       ` Mike Waychison
2009-03-18 19:04                                         ` Oren Laadan
2009-03-13 15:27                               ` Cedric Le Goater
2009-03-13 17:11                                 ` Greg Kurz
2009-03-13 17:37                               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-13 15:47                         ` Cedric Le Goater
2009-03-13 16:35                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-13 16:53                             ` Cedric Le Goater
2009-02-26 16:27                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-26 17:33                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-26 18:30                     ` Greg Kurz
2009-02-26 22:17                       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-27  9:19                         ` Greg Kurz
2009-02-27 10:53                           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-27 14:33                             ` Cedric Le Goater
2009-02-27  9:36                         ` Cedric Le Goater
2009-02-26 22:31                     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-27  9:03                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-27  9:19                         ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27 10:57                           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-27  9:22                         ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27 10:59                           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-27 16:14                       ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-27 21:57                         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-27 21:54                           ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-01  1:33                       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-01 20:02                         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-01 20:56                           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-01 22:21                             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-03-03 16:17                             ` Cedric Le Goater
2009-03-03 18:28                               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-02-13 10:53               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-16 20:51                 ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-17 22:23                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-17 22:30                     ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-18  0:32                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-18  0:40                         ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-18  5:11                           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-18 18:16                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-18 21:27                               ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-18 23:15                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-19 19:06                                   ` Banning checkpoint (was: Re: What can OpenVZ do?) Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-19 19:11                                     ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-24  4:47                                       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-24  5:11                                         ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-24 15:43                                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-02-24 20:09                                           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-12 22:17             ` What can OpenVZ do? Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-13 10:27             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 11:32               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-02-13 11:45                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-13 22:28                   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-14  0:04                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-14  0:26                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-02-12 22:57         ` [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Dave Hansen
2009-02-12 23:05           ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-12 23:13             ` Dave Hansen
2009-02-13 23:28       ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-14 23:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-14 23:31           ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-14 23:50             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-16 17:37         ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-13  2:45         ` Oren Laadan
2009-03-13  3:57           ` Oren Laadan

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