[RFC][PATCH 0/7 + tools] Checkpoint/restore mostly in the userspace

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Fri Jul 15 08:01:42 PDT 2011


Hello,

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:45:10PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> There have already been made many attempts to have the
> checkpoint/restore functionality in Linux, but as far as I can see
> there's still no final solutions that suits most of the interested
> people. The main concern about the previous approaches as I see it
> was about - all that stuff was supposed to sit in the kernel thus
> creating various problems.
> 
> I'd like to bring this subject back again proposing the way of how
> to implement c/r mostly in the userspace with the reasonable help of
> a kernel.

I just glanced through the series and it seems well contained but as
it touches process hierarchy, I think it would be better to cc Oleg
Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com> and Andrew Morton too.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun


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