[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH][cryo] Save/restore state of unnamed pipes
Oren Laadan
orenl at cs.columbia.edu
Sun Jun 22 14:40:52 PDT 2008
sukadev at us.ibm.com wrote:
> From fd13986de32af31621b1badbcf7bfb5626648e0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:41:05 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Save/restore state of unnamed pipes
>
> Design:
>
> Current Linux kernels provide ability to read/write contents of FIFOs
> using /proc. i.e 'cat /proc/pid/fd/read-side-fd' prints the unread data
> in the FIFO. Similarly, 'cat foo > /proc/pid/fd/read-sid-fd' appends
> the contents of 'foo' to the unread contents of the FIFO.
>
> So to save/restore the state of the pipe, a simple implementation is
> to read the from the unnamed pipe's fd and save to the checkpoint-file.
> When restoring, create a pipe (using PT_PIPE()) in the child process,
> read the contents of the pipe from the checkpoint file and write it to
> the newly created pipe.
>
> Its fairly straightforward, except for couple of notes:
>
> - when we read contents of '/proc/pid/fd/read-side-fd' we drain
> the pipe such that when the checkpointed application resumes,
> it will not find any data. To fix this, we read from the
> 'read-side-fd' and write it back to the 'read-side-fd' in
> addition to writing to the checkpoint file.
One issue with this approach is that the operation (checkpoint) becomes
non-transparent to the "checkpointee"s: re-writing the data back into
the pipe/fifo may generate a SIGIO at the read-side of the pipe/fifo, or
an inotify event on the inode, without a real reason. This may confuse
the application if its logic relies on "normal" behavior.
>
> - there does not seem to be a mechanism to determine the count
> of unread bytes in the file. Current implmentation assumes a
> maximum of 64K bytes (PIPE_BUFS * PAGE_SIZE on i386) and fails
> if the pipe is not fully drained.
>
> Basic unit-testing done at this point (using tests/pipe.c).
>
> TODO:
> - Additional testing (with multiple-processes and multiple-pipes)
> - Named-pipes
>
> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at us.ibm.com>
> ---
> cr.c | 215 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/cr.c b/cr.c
> index 5163a3d..0cb9774 100644
> --- a/cr.c
> +++ b/cr.c
> @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ typedef struct fdinfo_t {
> char name[128]; /* file name. NULL if anonymous (pipe, socketpair) */
> } fdinfo_t;
>
> +typedef struct fifoinfo_t {
> + int fi_fd; /* fifo's read-side fd */
> + int fi_length; /* number of bytes in the fifo */
> +} fifofdinfo_t;
> +
> typedef struct memseg_t {
> unsigned long start; /* memory segment start address */
> unsigned long end; /* memory segment end address */
> @@ -468,6 +473,128 @@ out:
> return rc;
> }
>
> +static int estimate_fifo_unread_bytes(pinfo_t *pi, int fd)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Is there a way to find the number of bytes remaining to be
> + * read in a fifo ? If not, can we print it in fdinfo ?
> + *
> + * Return 64K (PIPE_BUFS * PAGE_SIZE) for now.
> + */
> + return 65536;
> +}
> +
> +static void ensure_fifo_has_drained(char *fname, int fifo_fd)
> +{
> + int rc, c;
> +
> + rc = read(fifo_fd, &c, 1);
> + if (rc != -1 && errno != EAGAIN) {
> + ERROR("FIFO '%s' not drained fully. rc %d, c %d "
> + "errno %d\n", fname, rc, c, errno);
> + }
> +
> +}
> +
> +static int save_process_fifo_info(pinfo_t *pi, int fd)
> +{
> + int i;
> + int rc;
> + int nbytes;
> + int fifo_fd;
> + int pbuf_size;
> + pid_t pid = pi->pid;
> + char fname[256];
> + fdinfo_t *fi = pi->fi;
> + char *pbuf;
> + fifofdinfo_t fifofdinfo;
> +
> + write_item(fd, "FIFO", NULL, 0);
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < pi->nf; i++) {
> + if (! S_ISFIFO(fi[i].mode))
> + continue;
> +
> + DEBUG("FIFO fd %d (%s), flag 0x%x\n", fi[i].fdnum, fi[i].name,
> + fi[i].flag);
> +
> + if (!(fi[i].flag & O_WRONLY))
> + continue;
> +
> + pbuf_size = estimate_fifo_unread_bytes(pi, fd);
> +
> + pbuf = (char *)malloc(pbuf_size);
> + if (!pbuf) {
> + ERROR("Unable to allocate FIFO buffer of size %d\n",
> + pbuf_size);
> + }
> + memset(pbuf, 0, pbuf_size);
> +
> + sprintf(fname, "/proc/%u/fd/%u", pid, fi[i].fdnum);
> +
> + /*
> + * Open O_NONBLOCK so read does not block if fifo has fewer
> + * bytes than our estimate.
> + */
> + fifo_fd = open(fname, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK);
> + if (fifo_fd < 0)
> + ERROR("Error %d opening FIFO '%s'\n", errno, fname);
> +
> + nbytes = read(fifo_fd, pbuf, pbuf_size);
> + if (nbytes < 0) {
> + if (errno != EAGAIN) {
> + ERROR("Error %d reading FIFO '%s'\n", errno,
> + fname);
> + }
> + nbytes = 0; /* empty fifo */
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * Ensure FIFO has been drained.
> + *
> + * TODO: If FIFO has not fully drained, our estimate of
> + * unread-bytes is wrong. We could:
> + *
> + * - have kernel print exact number of unread-bytes
> + * in /proc/pid/fdinfo/<fd>
> + *
> + * - read in contents multiple times and write multiple
> + * fifobufs or assemble them into a single, large
> + * buffer.
> + */
> + ensure_fifo_has_drained(fname, fifo_fd);
> +
> + /*
> + * Save FIFO data to checkpoint file
> + */
> + fifofdinfo.fi_fd = fi[i].fdnum;
> + fifofdinfo.fi_length = nbytes;
> + write_item(fd, "fifofdinfo", &fifofdinfo, sizeof(fifofdinfo));
> +
> + if (nbytes) {
> + write_item(fd, "fifobufs", pbuf, nbytes);
> +
> + /*
> + * Restore FIFO's contents so checkpointed application
> + * won't miss a thing.
> + */
> + errno = 0;
> + rc = write(fifo_fd, pbuf, nbytes);
> + if (rc != nbytes) {
> + ERROR("Wrote-back only %d of %d bytes to FIFO, "
> + "error %d\n", rc, nbytes, errno);
> + }
> + }
> +
> + close(fifo_fd);
> + free(pbuf);
> + }
> +
> + write_item(fd, "END FIFO", NULL, 0);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static int save_process_data(pid_t pid, int fd, lh_list_t *ptree)
> {
> char fname[256], exe[256], cwd[256], *argv, *env, *buf;
> @@ -587,6 +714,8 @@ static int save_process_data(pid_t pid, int fd, lh_list_t *ptree)
> }
> write_item(fd, "END FD", NULL, 0);
>
> + save_process_fifo_info(pi, fd);
> +
> /* sockets */
> write_item(fd, "SOCK", NULL, 0);
> for (i = 0; i < pi->ns; i++)
> @@ -839,6 +968,29 @@ int restore_fd(int fd, pid_t pid)
> }
> if (pfd != fdinfo->fdnum) t_d(PT_CLOSE(pid, pfd));
> }
> + } else if (S_ISFIFO(fdinfo->mode)) {
> + int pipefds[2] = { 0, 0 };
> +
> + /*
> + * We create the pipe when we see the pipe's read-fd.
> + * Just ignore the pipe's write-fd.
> + */
> + if (fdinfo->flag == O_WRONLY)
> + continue;
> +
> + DEBUG("Creating pipe for fd %d\n", fdinfo->fdnum);
> +
> + t_d(PT_PIPE(pid, pipefds));
> + t_d(pipefds[0]);
> + t_d(pipefds[1]);
> +
> + if (pipefds[0] != fdinfo->fdnum) {
> + DEBUG("Hmm, new pipe has fds %d, %d "
> + "Old pipe had fd %d\n", pipefds[0],
> + pipefds[1], fdinfo->fdnum); getchar();
> + exit(1);
> + }
> + DEBUG("Done creating pipefds[0] %d\n", pipefds[0]);
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -847,20 +999,8 @@ int restore_fd(int fd, pid_t pid)
> ret = PT_FCNTL(pid, fdinfo->fdnum, F_SETFL, fdinfo->flag);
> DEBUG("---- restore_fd() fd %d setfl flag 0x%x, ret %d\n",
> fdinfo->fdnum, fdinfo->flag, ret);
> -
> -
> free(fdinfo);
> }
> - if (1) {
> - /* test: force pipe creation */
> - static int first = 1;
> - int pipe[2] = { 0, 0 };
> - if (! first) return 0;
> - else first = 0;
> - t_d(PT_PIPE(pid, pipe));
> - t_d(pipe[0]);
> - t_d(pipe[1]);
> - }
> return 0;
> error:
> free(fdinfo);
> @@ -1231,6 +1371,55 @@ int restore_sig(pid_t pid, struct sigaction *sigact, sigset_t *sigmask, sigset_t
> return 0;
> }
>
> +int restore_fifo(int fd, pid_t pid)
> +{
> + char item[64];
> + void *buf = NULL;
> + size_t bufsz;
> + int ret;
> + int fifo_fd;
> + char fname[64];
> + int nbytes;
> + fifofdinfo_t *fifofdinfo = NULL;
> +
> + for(;;) {
> + ret = read_item(fd, item, sizeof(item), &buf, &bufsz);
> + DEBUG("restore_fifo() read item '%.12s'\n", item);
> + if ITEM_IS("END FIFO")
> + break;
> + else ITEM_SET(fifofdinfo, fifofdinfo_t);
> + else if ITEM_IS("fifobufs") {
> + DEBUG("restore_fifo() bufsz %d, fi_fd %d, length %d\n",
> + bufsz, fifofdinfo->fi_fd,
> + fifofdinfo->fi_length);
> +
> + if (!fifofdinfo->fi_length)
> + continue;
> +
> + sprintf(fname, "/proc/%u/fd/%d", pid,
> + fifofdinfo->fi_fd);
> +
> + fifo_fd = open(fname, O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK);
> + if (fifo_fd < 0) {
> + ERROR("Error %d opening FIFO '%s'\n", errno,
> + fname);
> + }
> +
> + errno = 0;
> + nbytes = write(fifo_fd, buf, bufsz);
> + if (nbytes != bufsz) {
> + ERROR("Error %d writing to FIFO '%s'\n",
> + errno, fname);
> + }
> + close(fifo_fd);
> + } else
> + ERROR("Unexpected item, '%s'\n", item);
> + }
> + DEBUG("restore_fifo() fd %d, len %d, got 'END FIFO'\n",
> + fifofdinfo->fi_fd, fifofdinfo->fi_length);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static int process_restart(int fd, int mode)
> {
> char item[64];
> @@ -1314,6 +1503,8 @@ static int process_restart(int fd, int mode)
> ptrace_set_thread_area(npid, ldt);
> if (cwd) PT_CHDIR(npid, cwd);
> restore_fd(fd, npid);
> + } else if (ITEM_IS("FIFO")) {
> + restore_fifo(fd, npid);
> } else if (ITEM_IS("SOCK")) {
> restore_sock(fd, npid);
> } else if (ITEM_IS("SEMUNDO")) {
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