[Devel] Re: [PATCH v7 09/10] IPC: message queue copy feature introduced

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Stanislav Kinsbursky
<skinsbursky at parallels.com> wrote:
> This patch is required for checkpoint/restore in userspace.
> IOW, c/r requires some way to get all pending IPC messages without deleting
> them from the queue (checkpoint can fail and in this case tasks will be resumed,
> so queue have to be valid).
> To achive this, new operation flag MSG_COPY for sys_msgrcv() system call was
> introduced. If this flag was specified, then mtype is interpreted as number of
> the message to copy.
> If MSG_COPY is set, then kernel will allocate dummy message with passed size,
> and then use new copy_msg() helper function to copy desired message (instead of
> unlinking it from the queue).
>
> Notes:
> 1) Return -ENOSYS if MSG_COPY is specified, but CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is
> not set.

Stanislav,

A naive question, because I have not followed C/R closely. How do you
deal with the case that other processes may be reading from the queue?
(Or is that disabled during checkpointing?)

Thanks,

Michael