[PATCH 5/9] cr: capabilities: define checkpoint and restore fns

Serge E. Hallyn serge at hallyn.com
Sun May 31 18:38:37 PDT 2009


Quoting Andrew G. Morgan (morgan at kernel.org):
> Serge,
> 
> I'm not sure I'm too happy with hard coding the 64-bitness of
> capability sets. It may well be a very long time before we increase
> their size, but couldn't you prepare for that with some reference to
> the prevailing magic numbers for the current ABI representation?

Hmm, ok.  I figured since the c/r code was in capability.h it would
be obvious that going past 64-bit would mean a new checkpoint image
format.  I can see where that's silly...

I'll put in a commented BUILD_BUG_ON like Alexey suggests - does that
suffice?

> Also, the use of 'error' as both a variable and a goto destination
> looks a little confusing.

Ok will change.

Did you see any problems with the way I authorize a task's resetting
of capabilities at sys_restart()?

thanks,
-serge


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