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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I'm investigating the possibility of making CRIU work with
ROCm, the AMD Radeon Open Compute Platform. I need some advice,
but I'll give you some background first.</p>
<p>ROCm uses the /dev/kfd device as well as /dev/dri/renderD*. I'm
planning to do most of the state saving using /dev/kfd with a
cr_plugin_dump_file callback in a plugin. I've spent some time
reading documentation on criu.org and also CRIU source code. At
this point I believe I have a fairly good understanding of the
low level details of saving kernel mode state associated with
ROCm processes.</p>
<p>I have more trouble with restoring the state. The main issue is
the way KFD maps system memory for device access using HMM (or
get_user pages and MMU notifiers with DKMS on older kernels).
This requires the VMAs to be at the expected virtual addresses
before we try to mirror them into the GPU page table. Resuming
execution on the GPU also needs to be delayed until after the
GPU memory mappings have been restored.<br>
</p>
<p>At the time of the cr_plugin_restore_file callback, the VMAs
are not at the right place in the restored process, so this is
too early to restore the GPU memory mappings. I can send the
mappings and their properties to KFD but KFD needs to wait for
some later trigger event before it activates the mappings and
their MMU notifiers.</p>
<p>So this is my question: What would be a good trigger event to
indicate that VMAs have been moved to their proper location by
the restorer parasite code? I have considered two possibilities
that will not work. I'm hoping you can give me some better
ideas:</p>
<ul>
<li>cr_plugin_fini</li>
<ul>
<li>Doesn't get called in all the child processes, not sure if
there is synchronization with the child processes' restore
completion<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>An MMU notifier on the munmap of the restorer parasite blob
itself</li>
<ul>
<li>In cr_plugin_restore_file this address is not known yet</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p>I noticed that the child processes are resumed through
sigreturn. I'm not familiar with this mechanism. Does this mean
there is some signal I may be able to intercept just before
execution of the child process resumes?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for your insights.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
Felix</p>
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