[CRIU] [RFC PATCH 0/9] fuse: API for Checkpoint/Restore

[Bernd Schubert]

On 3/6/23 20:18, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 at 17:44, Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn
> <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:15 PM Miklos Szeredi <miklos at szeredi.hu> wrote:
> 
>>> Apparently all of the added mechanisms (REINIT, BM_REVAL, conn_gen)
>>> are crash recovery related, and not useful for C/R.  Why is this being
>>> advertised as a precursor for CRIU support?
>>
>> It's because I'm doing this with CRIU in mind too, I think it's a good
>> way to make a universal interface
>> which can address not only the recovery case but also the C/R, cause
>> in some sense it's a close problem.
> 
> That's what I'm wondering about...
> 
> Crash recovery is about restoring (or at least regenerating) state in
> the userspace server.
> 
> In CRIU restoring the state of the userspace server is a solved
> problem, the issue is restoring state in the kernel part of fuse.  In
> a sense it's the exact opposite problem that crash recovery is doing.
> 
>> But of course, Checkpoint/Restore is a way more trickier. But before
>> doing all the work with CRIU PoC,
>> I wanted to consult with you and folks if there are any serious
>> objections to this interface/feature or, conversely,
>> if there is someone else who is interested in it.
>>
>> Now about interfaces REINIT, BM_REVAL.
>>
>> I think it will be useful for CRIU case, but probably I need to extend
>> it a little bit, as I mentioned earlier in the cover letter:
>>>> * "fake" daemon has to reply to FUSE_INIT request from the kernel and initialize fuse connection somehow.
>>>> This setup can be not consistent with the original daemon (protocol version, daemon capabilities/settings
>>>> like no_open, no_flush, readahead, and so on).
>>
>> So, after the "fake" demon has done its job during CRIU restore, we
>> need to replace it with the actual demon from
>> the dumpee tree and performing REINIT looks like a sanner way.
> 
> I don't get it.  How does REINIT help with switching to the real daemon?

The way I read the patches, the new daemon sends FUSE_INIT to advertise 
all of its features.