Re: [patch v4 resend 2/2] kcmp: Add KCMP_EPOLL_TFD mode to compare epoll target files

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri May 12 2017 - 18:00:24 EST


On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:39:28 +0300 Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With current epoll architecture target files are addressed
> with file_struct and file descriptor number, where the last
> is not unique. Moreover files can be transferred from another
> process via unix socket, added into queue and closed then
> so we won't find this descriptor in the task fdinfo list.
>
> Thus to checkpoint and restore such processes CRIU needs to
> find out where exactly the target file is present to add it into
> epoll queue. For this sake one can use kcmp call where
> some particular target file from the queue is compared with
> arbitrary file passed as an argument.
>
> Because epoll target files can have same file descriptor
> number but different file_struct a caller should explicitly
> specify the offset within.
>
> To test if some particular file is matching entry inside
> epoll one have to
>
> - fill kcmp_epoll_slot structure with epoll file descriptor,
> target file number and target file offset (in case if only
> one target is present then it should be 0)
>
> - call kcmp as kcmp(pid1, pid2, KCMP_EPOLL_TFD, fd, &kcmp_epoll_slot)
> - the kernel fetch file pointer matching file descriptor @fd of pid1
> - lookups for file struct in epoll queue of pid2 and returns traditional
> 0,1,2 result for sorting purpose

That's quite a bit more code. Is there a neat way of making it depend
on a new CONFIG_foo, then select CONFIG_foo if
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE?