Re: What can OpenVZ do?

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 19:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

Nothing motivates more than app designers complaining about the 
one-way flag.

Furthermore, it's _far_ easier to make a one-way flag SMP-safe. 
We just set it and that's it. When we unset it, what do we about 
SMP races with other threads in the same MM installing another 
non-linear vma, etc.

After looking at this for file descriptors, I have to really agree with
Ingo on this one, at least as far as the flag is concerned.  I want to
propose one teeny change, though:  I think the flag should be
per-resource.

We should have one flag in mm_struct, one in files_struct, etc...  The
task_is_checkpointable() function can just query task->mm, task->files,
etc...  This gives us nice behavior at clone() *and* fork that just
works.

I'll do this for files_struct and see how it comes out so you can take a
peek.

-- Dave

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