[Devel] Re: [RFC v3][PATCH 2/9] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart

[Louis Rilling]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 04:02:38AM -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
>
> Add those interfaces, as well as helpers needed to easily manage the
> file format. The code is roughly broken out as follows:
>
> checkpoint/sys.c - user/kernel data transfer, as well as setup of the
> checkpoint/restart context (a per-checkpoint data structure for
> housekeeping)
>
> checkpoint/checkpoint.c - output wrappers and basic checkpoint handling
>
> checkpoint/restart.c - input wrappers and basic restart handling
>
> Patches to add the per-architecture support as well as the actual
> work to do the memory checkpoint follow in subsequent patches.
>

[...]

> diff --git a/include/linux/ckpt_hdr.h b/include/linux/ckpt_hdr.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..629ad5a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/ckpt_hdr.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
> +#ifndef _CHECKPOINT_CKPT_HDR_H_
> +#define _CHECKPOINT_CKPT_HDR_H_
> +/*
> + *  Generic container checkpoint-restart
> + *
> + *  Copyright (C) 2008 Oren Laadan
> + *
> + *  This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
> + *  License.  See the file COPYING in the main directory of the Linux
> + *  distribution for more details.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <linux/utsname.h>
> +
> +/*
> + * To maintain compatibility between 32-bit and 64-bit architecture flavors,
> + * keep data 64-bit aligned: use padding for structure members, and use
> + * __attribute__ ((aligned (8))) for the entire structure.
> + */
> +
> +/* records: generic header */
> +
> +struct cr_hdr {
> +	__s16 type;
> +	__s16 len;
> +	__u32 parent;
> +};
> +
> +/* header types */
> +enum {
> +	CR_HDR_HEAD = 1,
> +	CR_HDR_STRING,
> +
> +	CR_HDR_TASK = 101,
> +	CR_HDR_THREAD,
> +	CR_HDR_CPU,
> +
> +	CR_HDR_MM = 201,
> +	CR_HDR_VMA,
> +	CR_HDR_MM_CONTEXT,
> +
> +	CR_HDR_TAIL = 5001
> +};
> +
> +struct cr_hdr_head {
> +	__u64 magic;
> +
> +	__u16 major;
> +	__u16 minor;
> +	__u16 patch;
> +	__u16 rev;
> +
> +	__u64 time;	/* when checkpoint taken */
> +	__u64 flags;	/* checkpoint options */
> +
> +	char release[__NEW_UTS_LEN];
> +	char version[__NEW_UTS_LEN];
> +	char machine[__NEW_UTS_LEN];
> +} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
> +
> +struct cr_hdr_tail {
> +	__u64 magic;
> +} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
> +
> +struct cr_hdr_task {
> +	__u64 state;
> +	__u32 exit_state;
> +	__u32 exit_code, exit_signal;

64bits alignment issue?
I probably missed it in previous versions...

Louis

> +
> +	__u64 utime, stime, utimescaled, stimescaled;
> +	__u64 gtime;
> +	__u64 prev_utime, prev_stime;
> +	__u64 nvcsw, nivcsw;
> +	__u64 start_time_sec, start_time_nsec;
> +	__u64 real_start_time_sec, real_start_time_nsec;
> +	__u64 min_flt, maj_flt;
> +
> +	__s32 task_comm_len;
> +} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
> +
> +#endif /* _CHECKPOINT_CKPT_HDR_H_ */

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