[PATCH 18/38] C/R: core stuff

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan at gmail.com):
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 06:44:36PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan at gmail.com):
> > > And since you guys showed that just idea of in-kernel checkpointing is not
> > > rejected outright, it doesn't mean that you can drag every single idea too.
> > 
> > Can you rephrase here?  I have no idea what you mean by 'drag every single
> > idea'
> 
>   									complexity
>  +-|------------------------------------------------|----------------------|-->
> hypervisor C/R					in-kernel C/R	C/R for unpriviledged
> 								C/R with "leaks"
> 
> I personally thought in-kernel C/R will be rejected outright, but it wasn't.
> This in theory doesn't mean other two issues should be accepted.

Note again that leaving c/R unprivileged was suggested (By Arnd)
as a way to keep us on our toes.  When it actually goes upstream
I would prefer it be under a new CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTART capability,
not CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

-serge