[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] cr: define CHECKPOINT_SUBTREE flag and sysctl

[Nathan Lynch]

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue at us.ibm.com> writes:
> Quoting Nathan Lynch (ntl at pobox.com):
>> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com> writes:
>> > Now it's possible that at the *start* of the checkpoint there was
>> > another task, not being checkpointed and not frozen, in the utsns,
>> > and it exited before the leaks check took place.
>> 
>> [Please excuse the obtuse queries below]
>> 
>> In which case the check would fail, yes?  Can this scenario actually
>> occur?  I'm of the understanding that a container must be frozen before
>> proceeding with checkpoint.  If that's correct, how could a task in the
>> container exit in the meantime?
>
> Heh, because there is no such thing as a 'container'.  There is a set of
> tasks in the same freezer control group, and it's possible that there is
> a task not in that cgroup which is in the same utsname as the rest of
> the tasks in that freezer cgroup.

Sigh, I had somehow forgotten these basic facts temporarily.  Sorry for
the noise; thanks for your patient explanations.
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