On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 3:09 AM, Dmitry Safonov <dsafo...@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
> + Adding back to CC x86 guys - as I've removed in ping messages.
>
> On 05/23/2017 11:09 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 02:13:29PM +0300, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/25/2017 08:18 PM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 04/14/2017 04:25 PM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> CRIU restores application mappings on the same place where they
>>>>> were before Checkpoint. That means, that we need to move vDSO
>>>>> and sigpage during restore on exactly the same place where
>>>>> they were before C/R.
>>>>>
>>>>> Make mremap() code update mm->context.{sigpage,vdso} pointers
>>>>> during VMA move. Sigpage is used for landing after handling
>>>>> a signal - if the pointer is not updated during moving, the
>>>>> application might crash on any signal after mremap().
>>>>>
>>>>> vDSO pointer on ARM32 is used only for setting auxv at this moment,
>>>>> update it during mremap() in case of future usage.
>>>>>
>>>>> Without those updates, current work of CRIU on ARM32 is not reliable.
>>>>> Historically, we error Checkpointing if we find vDSO page on ARM32
>>>>> and suggest user to disable CONFIG_VDSO.
>>>>> But that's not correct - it goes from x86 where signal processing
>>>>> is ended in vDSO blob. For arm32 it's sigpage, which is not disabled
>>>>> with `CONFIG_VDSO=n'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like C/R was working by luck - because userspace on ARM32 at
>>>>> this moment always sets SA_RESTORER.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org
>>>>> Cc: Russell King <li...@armlinux.org.uk>
>>>>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
>>>>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
>>>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
>>>>> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@openvz.org>
>>>>> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xe...@virtuozzo.com>
>>>>> Cc: Christopher Covington <c...@codeaurora.org>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafo...@virtuozzo.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> v2: (buildbot) Fix (unsinged long) to (void*) cast warning.
>>>>>
>>>>> arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 8 ++++++++
>>>>> arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>> arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c | 3 ---
>>>>> mm/mmap.c | 4 ++++
>>>>> 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ping?
>>>
>>>
>>> Ping?
>>
>>
>> I'm mostly happy with the ARM bits, but I can't take the patch without
>> acks from others because it touches other architectures/generic code.
>>
>
> Fair enough, thanks.
>
> Andy, does moving of this WARN_ON() looks good to you?
> I've done it to reuse it over arches and between vdso/sigpage mappings,
> reducing code duplication.
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> # For the x86 bit
>
> Here is the patch, so you don't need to search it in the mailbox:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9681273/
>
> --
> Dmitry
