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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/9] OpenVZ kernel based checkpointing/restart
Cedric Le Goater wrote:
>>> I'm afraid that we are forgetting to take the best from both
>>> approaches...
>> I agree with Louis.
>>
>> I played with Oren's patchset and tryed to port it on x86_64. I was able
>> to sys_checkpoint/sys_restart but if you remove the restoring of the
>> general registers, the restart still works. I am not an expert on asm,
>> but my hypothesis is when we call sys_checkpoint the registers are saved
>> on the stack by the syscall and when we restore the memory of the
>> process, we restore the stack and the stacked registers are restored
>> when exiting the sys_restart. That make me feel there is an important
>> gap between external checkpoint and internal checkpoint.
>>
>> Dmitry's patchset is nice too, but IMO, it goes too far from what we
>
> I think you are talking about Andrey.

Yes :)


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