[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Track in-kernel when we expect checkpoint/restart to work

Chris Friesen cfriesen at nortel.com
Fri Oct 10 10:18:47 PDT 2008


Greg Kurz wrote:

> This flag is weak... testing it gives absolutly no hint whether the
> checkpoint may succeed or not. As it is designed now, a user can only be
> aware that checkpoint is *forever* denied. I agree that it's only useful
> as a "flexible CR todo list".

I don't think it's true that it gives "absolutly no hint".

If the flag is not set, then checkpoint will succeed, right?  Whereas if 
the flag is set, then it's an indication that checkpoint could fail (but 
may still succeed if whatever condition caused the flag to be set is no 
longer true).

Chris

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