Proposed F19 Feature: Checkpoint/Restore

[Adrian Reber]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:13:44AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:02:57AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> > CONFIG_NAMESPACES seems to be required to make all those activated _NS
> >> > options actually enabled:
> >> >
> >> > config-generic:CONFIG_PID_NS=y
> >> > config-generic:CONFIG_UTS_NS=y
> >> > config-generic:CONFIG_IPC_NS=y
> >> > config-generic:CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> >>
> >> Those might be doable.
> >
> > To make it clear. This already what is in the kernel package and not a
> > change I made. It just needs CONFIG_NAMESPACES to actually be enabled.
> 
> The kernel team discussed this at last week's public kernel meeting.  I
> think we're comfortable enabling these options.  We're going to patch
> the Kconfig so that it doesn't depend on CONFIG_EXPERT, but aside from
> that things should be as you suggest.
> 
> We'd really like to see some kind of testing framework for this though.
> Do you know of any testcases that could be added to the Fedora kernel
> testing git tree to cover CRIU?  If not, do you think you could create
> some minimal ones?

The userspace part of CRIU (crtools) contains about 100 testcases. Some
of them probably require some kernel patches which are not yet
upstreamed, but I think that most of them would work. I would be happy to
include them in the Fedora kernel testing git tree. No problem.

		Adrian