[Devel] Re: [RFC PATCH v8 0/5] IPC: checkpoint/restore in userspace enhancements

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:34:51 +0400
Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky at parallels.com> wrote:

> This respin of the patch set was significantly reworked. Most part of new API
> was replaced by sysctls (by one per messages, semaphores and shared memory),
> allowing to preset desired id for next new IPC object.
> 
> This patch set is aimed to provide additional functionality for all IPC
> objects, which is required for migration of these objects by user-space
> checkpoint/restore utils (CRIU).
> 
> The main problem here was impossibility to set up object id. This patch set
> solves the problem by adding new sysctls for preset of desired id for new IPC
> object.
> 
> Another problem was to peek messages from queues without deleting them.
> This was achived by introducing of new MSG_COPY flag for sys_msgrcv(). If
> MSG_COPY flag is set, then msgtyp is interpreted as message number.

OK, thanks, I grabbed these.  They're not the worst c/r patches I've
ever seen ;)

I'm not seeing any evidence that anyone else has reviewed or tested
these?