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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Anomalous Force <anomalous_force@yahoo.com>
Cc: wa@almesberger.net, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: holy grail
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 14:24:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021227132419.GA404@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021227072142.26177.qmail@web13208.mail.yahoo.com>


Hi!

> > Your best bet would be to use a system that already implements some
> > form of checkpointing or process migration, and use this to
> > preserve user space state across kexec reboots. openMosix may be
> 
> [snip]
> 
> preserving user state would not be so much the problem as would
> the various internal kernel data structures (vm stuff, dcache, etc.)

Actually, you want to kill vm structures, dcache etc. You only want
userspace-visible state to be carried forward to minimize possibility
of bringing bugs to new kernel.
								Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-27 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-27  0:51 holy grail Anomalous Force
2002-12-27  4:03 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-12-27  7:21   ` Anomalous Force
2002-12-27  7:37     ` Ingo Oeser
2002-12-27 11:30     ` Werner Almesberger
2002-12-28 16:35       ` Anomalous Force
2002-12-28 20:43         ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-29 15:56           ` Anomalous Force
2002-12-29 16:44             ` John Bradford
2002-12-30  1:05           ` Alan Cox
2002-12-30  1:32             ` Werner Almesberger
2002-12-30  2:45               ` Jeff Dike
2002-12-30  3:55                 ` David Lang
2002-12-30  4:39                   ` Anomalous Force
2002-12-30 17:57                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-12-30 13:30               ` Alan Cox
2002-12-29 23:53         ` Werner Almesberger
2002-12-27 13:24     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-30  5:00 Anomalous Force
2002-12-30  6:46 ` Ed Sweetman

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