[CRIU] Restore CRIU image across a host

Hui Kang hkang.sunysb at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 14:40:48 PDT 2015


Hi, Tycho
Thanks for your suggestion. I am using criu RPC calls, where I can not find
the four mode for cgroup-manager. Instead, it is a bool type value.

optional bool			manage_cgroups	= 24;

Should I update my criu version (I am using v1.6)?

- Hui

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen at canonical.com
> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:01:14PM -0400, Hui Kang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to restore the process on a different criu host by
> transferring
> > the CRIU images. The checkpointed criu images are scp-ed to a different
> > host; however the restore fails. The restore.log shows that
> >
> > (00.075765)      1: nr_restored_pages: 66
> > (00.075772)      1: nr_shared_pages:   0
> > (00.075779)      1: nr_droped_pages:   0
> > (00.075829)      1: Found fd 1 (id pipe:[13922]) in inherit fd list
> (caller
> > close_old_fds)
> > (00.075841)      1: Found fd 2 (id pipe:[13923]) in inherit fd list
> (caller
> > close_old_fds)
> > (00.075859)      1: cg: Move into 2
> >  1: cg:   `-> blkio//[PID]/tasks
> > (00.075906)      1: cg:   `-> cpu//[PID]/tasks
> > (00.075946)      1: cg:   `-> cpuacct//[PID]/tasks
> > (00.075967)      1: cg:   `-> cpuset//[PID]/tasks
> > (00.076008)      1: Error (cgroup.c:901): cg: Can't move into
> > cpuset//[PID]/tasks (-1/0): No space left on device
> > (00.082249) Error (cr-restore.c:1919): Restoring FAILED.
> >
> > Note that the process being migrated has its cgroup directory in the
> source
> > node, which apparently does not exist in the destination host. So I first
> > mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/PID .... and copy the content from the source to
> > destination.
>
> You might want to use one of the new `--manage-cgroups full` mode to
> do this for you. That said, moving something into cpuset's tasks fails
> with ENOSPC for the following reasons (from cpuset(7)):
>
>        ENOSPC Attempted to write(2) the process ID (PID) of  a  process
> to  a  cpuset
>               tasks file when the cpuset had an empty cpuset.cpus or empty
> cpuset.mems
>               setting.
>
>        ENOSPC Attempted to write(2) an empty cpuset.cpus or cpuset.mems
> setting  to  a
>               cpuset that has tasks attached.
>
> So depending on what you copied over, it can cause some problems. In
> `--manage-cgroups full` mode, criu's code should be smart enough to handle
> things, though.
>
> Tycho
>
> > Is there anything wrong in these steps? Thanks.
> >
> > - Hui
>
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