Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support.

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:42:39 +0300 Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:24:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I guess I'm being more than usually thick, but I don't understand what this is all about, why it was implemented,

Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support.

2008-11-26 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:15:38AM -0800, Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: OK, so we have a super-duper framework which will allow us to add pids (and other things) to inotify messages. Yup :) This still doesn't provide a reason for anyone to be interested in the code! Why do we

[PATCH] ABI Documentation for /proc/timer_list

2008-11-26 Thread Joe Korty
Document /proc/timer_list ABI. This documents all of /timer_list, including the extension adding jiffie timers, as proposed in the patch: [PATCH] Display active jiffie timers in /proc/timer_list, v2 Signed-off-by: Joe Korty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index:

[RFC v10][PATCH 00/13] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

2008-11-26 Thread Oren Laadan
Checkpoint-restart (c/r): fixes a couple of bugs and a DoS issue (tested against v2.6.28-rc3). We'd like these to make it into -mm. This version addresses the last of the known bugs. Please pull at least the first 11 patches, as they are similar to before. Patches 1-11 are stable, providing

[RFC v10][PATCH 10/13] External checkpoint of a task other than ourself

2008-11-26 Thread Oren Laadan
Now we can do external checkpoint, i.e. act on another task. sys_checkpoint() now looks up the target pid (in our namespace) and checkpoints that corresponding task. That task should be the root of a container. sys_restart() remains the same, as the restart is always done in the context of the

[RFC v10][PATCH 02/13] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation

2008-11-26 Thread Oren Laadan
Covers application checkpoint/restart, overall design, interfaces, usage, shared objects, and and checkpoint image format. Changelog[v8]: - Split into multiple files in Documentation/checkpoint/... - Extend documentation, fix typos and comments from feedback Signed-off-by: Oren Laadan [EMAIL

[RFC v10][PATCH 03/13] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart

2008-11-26 Thread Oren Laadan
Add those interfaces, as well as helpers needed to easily manage the file format. The code is roughly broken out as follows: checkpoint/sys.c - user/kernel data transfer, as well as setup of the CR context (a per-checkpoint data structure for housekeeping) checkpoint/checkpoint.c - output