Re: Linux Checkpoint-Restart - v19

Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-17T20:56:06Z

Quoting Jiro SEKIBA (jir@dependable-os.net):
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for prompt reply!
> Sorry that I didn't post to containers@lists.linux-foundation.org.
>
> On 2010/03/16, at 7:55, Oren Laadan wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for taking the time to evaluate c/r. You may want to also
> > try the latest, which is (as of now) ckpt-v20-rc2.
>
> Yeah, I'll eventually try to keep up with the latest,
> but I just want to try the one you think it's stable first anyway.
>
> > In the future, please CC the containers mailing list for issues
> > related to c/r, at "containers@lists.linux-foundation.org".
> >
> > Jiro SEKIBA wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm trying to evaluate external checkpoint/restart with cr-v19 kernel.
> >> However, when I restart, I got "Killed" message in stdout.
> >> Do you have any tips or clue that are not in
> >> Documentation/checkpoint/usage.txt ?
> >> I'm using kernel pulled from
> >> git://git.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/pub/git/linux-cr.git .
> >> checkout tag named "ckpt-v19". Base distro is ubuntu 9.10.
> >> I ran self checkpioint/restart sample program in Documentation/checkpint.
> >> It works as written in usage.txt.
> >> However, I can not make external checkpint/restart work properly.
> >> I made a simple test program bellow and create checkpoint externally using
> >> the program in Documentation/checkpoint/, it looks checkpoint file is
> >> created properly.
> >> However, when I ran self_restart < ckpt.image, I got "Killed" message.
> >
> > If you take an external checkpoint, then you need to match it
> > with an external restart, as opposed to self_restart.
> >
> > Otherwise, restarting with self_restart from a checkpoint that is
> > not a self-checkpoint can yield unexpected results.
> >
> > Since you don't mention in your post, I don't know if you are using
> > the tools from user-cr. If not, then you should use 'checkpoint' and
> > 'restart' tools from there. It is available from:
> > git://git.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/pub/git/user-cr.git
> > (use the same branch as the one you used to linux-cr).
> >
> > Once you have the tools compiled, and you checkpoint with the
> > 'checkpoint' utility from there, you can restart with:
> > restart -v < ckpt.image
> >
>
> Thank you for the information.
> Actually I was trying to create checkpoint in Document/checkpints.
>
> Now, I tried with user-cr, compiled binary in the same tag (ckpt-v19).
> Creating checkpoint looks OK and restart -v shows it Success. nice!
> However, the contents in /tmp/test.out never get further,
> it remains same as when created checkpoint.
>
> I tried "./restart -F /cgroup/0 -v --no-pidns < ckpt.image", got Success.
> cat /cgroup/0/tasks tells that there is a process.
> ps shows ./test. So, it looks restarting.
>
> # ps axuww |grep $(cat /cgroup/0/tasks )
> root 7231 0.1 0.0 1588 64 pts/0 D 16:57 0:00 ./test
> root 7238 0.0 0.1 2716 660 pts/1 R+ 16:57 0:00 grep 7231
>
> under the /proc, one file descriptor opened, and it is /tmp/test.out
>
> # ls -l /proc/$(cat /cgroup/0/tasks)/fd
> total 0
> lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Mar 16 16:58 0 -> /tmp/test.out
>
> Nhh, it's close..
>
> I found that when I mount cgroup with -o freezer, self_checkpoint won't work.
> It worked even I didn't mount the cgroup.
> Is it what you expect?

No, it is not. Can you tell us more about exactly how it fails?

Maybe get the cr_tests (either from Oren's tree or from
git clone git://git.sr71.net/~hallyn/cr_tests.git), cd cr_test,
make, cd simple, run ./ckpt and send us the contents of
/tmp/log, dmesg, and ckptinfo -ve /tmp/out ?

> Thank you again for the help!
> I'm feeling better to use the latest ..

-serge