[CRIU] [PATCH RFC 8/8] criu: lazy-pages: enable remoting of lazy pages

Mike Rapoport rppt at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 30 08:16:42 PDT 2016


On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 05:59:28PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 05/30/2016 03:33 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 01:58:53PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> >> On 05/29/2016 09:58 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> >>> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:38:00PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> >>>> On 05/21/2016 01:49 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> >>>>> The remote lazy pages variant can be run as follows:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> src# criu dump -t <pid> --lazy-pages --port 9876 -D /tmp/1 &
> >>>>
> >>>> This thing starts dump and lazy page server that flushes pages remotely.
> >>>>
> >>>>> src# while ! sudo fuser 9876/tcp ; do sleep 1; done
> >>>>> src# scp -r /tmp/1/ dst:/tmp/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> dst# criu lazy-pages --lazy-addr /tmp/uffd.sock --page-server \
> >>>>>                      --address dst --port 9876 -D /tmp/1 &
> >>>>
> >>>> This will start lazy pages client that would connect to dump side
> >>>> and ... request for pages?
> >>>
> >>> Yep, lazy-pages daemon will connect to the dump side and forward page fault
> >>> requests there.
> >>>  
> >>>>> dst# criu restore --lazy-pages --lazy-addr /tmp/uffd.sock -D /tmp/1
> >>>>
> >>>> One more comment inline :)
> >>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>>  criu/cr-dump.c   | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >>>>>  criu/page-read.c |  2 +-
> >>>>>  criu/uffd.c      |  9 ++++++++-
> >>>>>  3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> diff --git a/criu/cr-dump.c b/criu/cr-dump.c
> >>>>> index 1a551b4..faca73b 100644
> >>>>> --- a/criu/cr-dump.c
> >>>>> +++ b/criu/cr-dump.c
> >>>>> @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static int dump_one_task(struct pstree_item *item)
> >>>>>  		}
> >>>>>  	}
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> -	ret = parasite_dump_pages_seized(parasite_ctl, &vmas, false);
> >>>>> +	ret = parasite_dump_pages_seized(parasite_ctl, &vmas, opts.lazy_pages);
> >>>>>  	if (ret)
> >>>>>  		goto err_cure;
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> @@ -1338,7 +1338,10 @@ static int dump_one_task(struct pstree_item *item)
> >>>>>  		goto err;
> >>>>>  	}
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> -	ret = parasite_cure_seized(parasite_ctl);
> >>>>> +	if (opts.lazy_pages)
> >>>>> +		ret = parasite_cure_remote(parasite_ctl);
> >>>>> +	else
> >>>>> +		ret = parasite_cure_seized(parasite_ctl);
> >>>>>  	if (ret) {
> >>>>>  		pr_err("Can't cure (pid: %d) from parasite\n", pid);
> >>>>>  		goto err;
> >>>>> @@ -1525,6 +1528,49 @@ err:
> >>>>>  	return cr_pre_dump_finish(ret);
> >>>>>  }
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> +static int cr_lazy_mem_dump(void)
> >>>>> +{
> >>>>> +	struct pstree_item *item;
> >>>>> +	int ret = 0;
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +	pr_info("Lazy pages: pre-dumping memory\n");
> >>>>> +	for_each_pstree_item(item) {
> >>>>> +		struct parasite_ctl *ctl = item->parasite_ctl;
> >>>>> +		struct page_xfer xfer;
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +		timing_start(TIME_MEMWRITE);
> >>>>> +		ret = open_page_xfer(&xfer, CR_FD_PAGEMAP, ctl->pid.virt);
> >>>>> +		if (ret < 0)
> >>>>> +			goto err;
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +		ret = page_xfer_dump_pages(&xfer, ctl->mem_pp, 0, false);
> >>>>
> >>>> If I got the set right :) 
> >>>
> >>> Hmm, not quite ;-)
> >>>
> >>>> this place just flushes all the lazy memory into
> >>>> socket ignoring the requests from restore side and that's it. No?
> >>>
> >>> This place flushes all the memory *except* lazy pages into the images.
> >>> The buffers that are marked with PPB_LAZY are not  written.
> >>
> >> Ah! Indeed. The last 'false', yes. So here we flush all the memory __but__ the
> >> lazy one. OK, the question is -- why not write one using existing --page-server
> >> dump?
> > 
> > Haven't got this. Write what? The PPB_LAZY buffer?
> 
> No. You say that at this point you send into the network all the pages that
> are not lazy. My question is -- why we pull pages till this point, instead
> of sending them into socket immediately, as it's done during regular dump?

Well, I've started from "delayed" dump and then added remoting of the
pages, so that's what I've got :)
Anyway, there should be no problem to dump non-lazy pages immediately like
in regular dump, it just makes __parasite_dump_pages_seized too ugly
because of the three cases it needs to handle :)
 
> >> And one more comment regarding this below.
> >>
> >>>>> +		xfer.close(&xfer);
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +		if (ret)
> >>>>> +			goto err;
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +		timing_stop(TIME_MEMWRITE);
> >>>>> +	}
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +	pr_info("Starting lazy pages server\n");
> >>>>> +	ret = cr_page_server(false, -1);
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +	for_each_pstree_item(item) {
> >>>>> +		struct parasite_ctl *ctl = item->parasite_ctl;
> >>>>> +		destroy_page_pipe(ctl->mem_pp);
> >>>>> +		parasite_cure_local(ctl);
> >>>>> +	}
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +err:
> >>>>> +	if (ret)
> >>>>> +		pr_err("Lazy pages transfer FAILED.\n");
> >>>>> +	else
> >>>>> +		pr_info("Lazy pages transfer finished successfully\n");
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +	return ret;
> >>>>> +}
> >>>>> +
> >>>>>  static int cr_dump_finish(int ret)
> >>>>>  {
> >>>>>  	int post_dump_ret = 0;
> >>>>> @@ -1583,6 +1629,10 @@ static int cr_dump_finish(int ret)
> >>>>>  		network_unlock();
> >>>>>  		delete_link_remaps();
> >>>>>  	}
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +	if (opts.lazy_pages)
> >>>>> +		ret = cr_lazy_mem_dump();
> >>>>> +
> >>>>>  	pstree_switch_state(root_item,
> >>>>>  			    (ret || post_dump_ret) ?
> >>>>>  			    TASK_ALIVE : opts.final_state);
> >>>>> diff --git a/criu/page-read.c b/criu/page-read.c
> >>>>> index e5ec76a..203b170 100644
> >>>>> --- a/criu/page-read.c
> >>>>> +++ b/criu/page-read.c
> >>>>> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static void skip_pagemap_pages(struct page_read *pr, unsigned long len)
> >>>>>  		return;
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>  	pr_debug("\tpr%u Skip %lu bytes from page-dump\n", pr->id, len);
> >>>>> -	if (!pr->pe->in_parent)
> >>>>> +	if (!pr->pe->in_parent && !opts.lazy_pages)
> >>>>>  		lseek(img_raw_fd(pr->pi), len, SEEK_CUR);
> >>>>>  	pr->cvaddr += len;
> >>>>>  }
> >>>>> diff --git a/criu/uffd.c b/criu/uffd.c
> >>>>> index ef1ff89..d140d38 100644
> >>>>> --- a/criu/uffd.c
> >>>>> +++ b/criu/uffd.c
> >>>>> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
> >>>>>  #include "xmalloc.h"
> >>>>>  #include "syscall-codes.h"
> >>>>>  #include "restorer.h"
> >>>>> +#include "page-xfer.h"
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>  #undef  LOG_PREFIX
> >>>>>  #define LOG_PREFIX "lazy-pages: "
> >>>>> @@ -363,7 +364,10 @@ static int uffd_copy_page(struct lazy_pages_info *lpi, __u64 address,
> >>>>>  	struct uffdio_copy uffdio_copy;
> >>>>>  	int rc;
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> -	rc = get_page(lpi, address, dest);
> >>>>> +	if (opts.use_page_server)
> >>>>> +		rc = get_remote_pages(lpi->pid, address, 1, dest);
> >>
> >> Would you make the respective page_read handler for this case?
> > 
> > Eventually, yes :)
> > At the moment page_reader is very much sequential and I think we'd better
> > refactor it to allow random access and then add remote_page_reader.
> 
> It's sequential internally, but the API allows for accessing random page.
> If you hide your remote page reader under the page_read API you'll be
> able (should be able :) ) to access pages the way you want.
> 
> -- Pavel
> 



More information about the CRIU mailing list