Quoting Sukadev Bhattiprolu ([email protected]):
> 
> Oren, 
> 
> I see that patch 3/6 (deny external checkpoint unless frozen) in this
> set was merged in v14, but do you have any plans/objections to merging
> this optimization patch ? Serge had acked an earlier version of this
> patch.
> 
> Suka
> 
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu [[email protected]] wrote:
> | 
> | From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
> | Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:19:54 -0700
> | Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Check 'may_checkpoint()' early
> | 
> | We currently check if a task is checkpointable when writing the task
> | information to checkpoint file. The small downside of doing this check
> | late is that we may have processed several processes in the tree before
> | hitting one that cannot be checkpointed.
> | 
> | We anyway walk the process tree we are checkpointing earlier, while
> | counting the tasks. We could check if all processes in the tree are
> | checkpointable at that time and fail early if any of them are not.
> | Since the process tree should be frozen, checking earlier should not
> | matter ?
> | 
> | For now, the patch leaves the existing check in cr_write_pids(). We
> | can remove that later.
> | 
> | Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
> | ---
> |  checkpoint/checkpoint.c |    9 +++++++++
> |  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> | 
> | diff --git a/checkpoint/checkpoint.c b/checkpoint/checkpoint.c
> | index ed4fd3d..dae9b97 100644
> | --- a/checkpoint/checkpoint.c
> | +++ b/checkpoint/checkpoint.c
> | @@ -341,11 +341,18 @@ static int cr_tree_count_tasks(struct cr_ctx *ctx)
> |     struct task_struct **tasks_arr = ctx->tasks_arr;
> |     int tasks_nr = ctx->tasks_nr;
> |     int nr = 0;
> | +   int ret;
> | 
> |     read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> | 
> |     /* count tasks via DFS scan of the tree */
> |     while (1) {
> | +           ret = cr_may_checkpoint_task(task, ctx);
> | +           if (ret < 0) {
> | +                   nr = ret;
> | +                   break;
> | +           }
> | +
> |             if (tasks_arr) {
> |                     /* unlikely, but ... */
> |                     if (nr == tasks_nr)
> | @@ -401,6 +408,8 @@ static int cr_build_tree(struct cr_ctx *ctx)
> | 
> |     /* count tasks (no side effects) */
> |     n = cr_tree_count_tasks(ctx);
> | +   if (n < 0)
> | +           return n;

This hunk is already in v14.

-serge
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