enable kernel options for criu

[Adrian Reber]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 08:46:49AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:06:02AM +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:
> > Now Checkpoint/Restart in Userspace[1] has released the first version of
> > their user-space tools I want to ask if it is possible to enable a few
> > kernel configuration options to use criu? I have prepared a package for
> > crtools but not yet submitted. As long as the kernel support is not
> > enabled is does not make much sense. 
> > 
> > Following additional options (according to http://criu.org/CR_tools)
> > are necessary:
> > 
> > CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
> 
> I'm not wild about enabling that.  There's been one other request to
> enable it, but it was more to get a side-effect of it than to actually
> use C/R.

Any specific reasons you do not want to enable it? Too experimental?

Most of the changes seem to touch the procfs and which information it
provides. Just curious about the possible drawbacks.

		Adrian