Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl@xxxxxxxxxxx):
> In "subtree" restart (restarting not inside a container), 'restart'
> uses prctl(PR_DEATH_SIGNAL,...) to ensure proper cleanup should the
> restart fail prematurely. The death_signal is sent, recursively, to
> all the descendants of root to force-kill them.
>
> However, dead (dummy) tasks, marked with TASK_DEAD, used to exit
> during the creation of the task tree. Since the task is not within
> sys_restart it does not have the PF_RESTARTING, and therefore will
> send the death_signal its children as it exits.
>
> To fix it, we observe that dead tasks are much like ghost tasks:
> they are expected to terminate from within sys_restart, and before
> the other tasks may resume execution. So we now treat dead (dummy)
> tasks similarly to ghost tasks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hmm? But at line 1540 you are still doing do_exit if it's
TASK_DEAD :)
> ---
> restart.c | 27 ++++++++-------------------
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/restart.c b/restart.c
> index 07ffdc3..b810ca9 100644
> --- a/restart.c
> +++ b/restart.c
> @@ -1485,10 +1485,12 @@ static int ckpt_propagate_session(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, struct task *task)
> * needed. In the second pass the task forks the remainder of the
> * children. In both passes, a child that is marked TASK_THREAD is
> * created as a thread and a child that is marked TASK_SIBLING is
> - * created with parent inheritance. In the third pass, terminated
> - * tasks and temporary placeholders are cleaned up. Finally, the task
> - * either terminates if it is marked TASK_DEAD or calls sys_restart()
> - * which does not return.
> + * created with parent inheritance. Finally, the task will invoke
> + * sys_restart() which does not return (if successful).
> + *
> + * Tasks marked TASK_DEAD or TASK_GHOST are both destined to terminate
> + * anyway; both use flag RESTART_GHOST for sys_restart(), which will
> + * result in a call to do_exit().
> */
> static int ckpt_make_tree(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, struct task *task)
> {
> @@ -1534,17 +1536,6 @@ static int ckpt_make_tree(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, struct task *task)
> }
> }
>
> - /* 3rd pass: bring out your deads ... */
> - for (child = task->children; child; child = child->next_sib) {
> - if (child->flags & TASK_DEAD) {
> - ret = waitpid(child->rpid, NULL, 0);
> - if (ret < 0) {
> - perror("waitpid");
> - return -1;
> - }
> - }
> - }
> -
> /* are we supposed to exit now ? */
> if (task->flags & TASK_DEAD) {
> ckpt_dbg("pid %d: task dead ... exiting\n", task->pid);
> @@ -1587,7 +1578,7 @@ static int ckpt_make_tree(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, struct task *task)
> * then exit (more precisely, killed). The RESTART_GHOST flag
> * tells the kernel that they are not to be restored.
> */
> - if (task->flags & TASK_GHOST)
> + if (task->flags & (TASK_GHOST | TASK_DEAD))
> flags |= RESTART_GHOST;
>
> /* on success this doesn't return */
> @@ -1907,9 +1898,7 @@ static int ckpt_adjust_pids(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx)
>
> /* read in 'pid_swap' data and adjust ctx->pids_arr */
> for (n = 0; n < ctx->tasks_nr; n++) {
> - /* don't expect data from dead tasks */
> - if (ctx->tasks_arr[n].flags & TASK_DEAD)
> - continue;
> + /* get pid info from next task */
> ret = read(ctx->pipe_in, &swap, sizeof(swap));
> if (ret < 0)
> ckpt_abort(ctx, "read pipe");
> --
> 1.6.0.4
>
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