[Devel] [PATCH 0/2] Start time of a task inside a container.

Valeriy Vdovin valeriy.vdovin at virtuozzo.com
Tue Dec 31 14:41:11 MSK 2019


This patch addresses the problem of varying views on start time 
of a resumed process between container and host. From a container
point of view the resumed process is the same old process with
the same old start time, which hasn't changed after suspend/resume.
>From a host point of view the resumed process is just a new one
with a new start_time. Both the host and the container want to
see start time that is only relevant to their context.

To support that we should teach the output of of /proc/pid/stat
to show container-related value from container context and host-
related value from host context.

The patch introduces new field to task_struct that stores container-
related start time value. It will be seen in /proc/pid/stat in case
if it was requested by a task, that's in ve cgroup. 
Setting this field can be done with prctl only from host or a
container task with pseudosuper flag set.

At suspend this value is dumped by criu and at restore it's set back
from a dump by criu.

Valeriy Vdovin (1):
  Added separate start time field to task_struct to show in container

 fs/proc/array.c            | 16 ++++------------
 include/linux/sched.h      |  5 +++++
 include/uapi/linux/prctl.h |  9 +++++++++
 kernel/fork.c              | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/sys.c               | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/ve/ve.c             | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Valeriy Vdovin (2):
  Dump/restore start_time param from /proc/[pid]/stat for each task

 criu/cr-dump.c    | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 criu/cr-restore.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 images/core.proto |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+)

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1.8.3.1



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