Re: [RFC v6][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Mon Oct 13 2008 - 12:43:58 EST


On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:13 +0200, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> hmm, that's rather complex, because we have to take into account the
> kernel stack, no ? This is what Andrey was trying to solve in his patchset
> back in September :
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/3/96
>
> the restart phase simulates a clone and switch_to to (not) restore the kernel
> stack. right ?

Do we ever have to worry about the kernel stack if we simply say that
tasks have to be *in* userspace when we checkpoint them. If a task is
in an uninterruptable wait state, I'm not sure it's safe to checkpoint
it anyway.

-- Dave

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