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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: orenl@cs.columbia.edu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC v7][PATCH 2/9] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:41:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021134133.f84151e9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081021202410.GA10423@us.ibm.com>

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:24:10 -0500
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> > I'd like to see the security guys take a real close look at all of
> > this, and for them to do that effectively they should be provided with
> > a full description of the security design of this feature.
> 
> Right, some of the above should be spelled out somewhere.  Should it be
> in the patch description, in the Documentation/checkpoint.txt file,
> or someplace else?

Dupliction is usually bad.  Documentation/checkpoint.txt would be good
(although these things tend to go out of date fast).

If you go that way, please ensure that the documentation patch is early
in the series and that the changelog says "look in here before whining,
dummy".


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-20  5:40 [RFC v7][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-10-20  5:40 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 1/9] Create syscalls: sys_checkpoint, sys_restart Oren Laadan
2008-10-20  5:40 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 2/9] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart Oren Laadan
2008-10-21 19:41   ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-21 20:24     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-21 20:41       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-10-22  1:33       ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-22  2:55         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-10-22  3:02           ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-22 14:29             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-10-22 15:28         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-22 16:02           ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-22 17:03             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-22 18:32               ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-27  8:27             ` Peter Chubb
2008-10-27 11:03               ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-27 16:42                 ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-27 17:11                   ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-27 20:51                     ` Matt Helsley
2008-10-27 21:20                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-27 21:51                       ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-27 22:09                         ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-28 18:33                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-20  5:40 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 3/9] x86 support for checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-10-20  5:40 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 4/9] Dump memory address space Oren Laadan
2008-10-20  5:40 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 5/9] Restore " Oren Laadan
2008-10-20  5:40 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 6/9] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation Oren Laadan
2008-10-28 16:48   ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-10-20  5:40 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 7/9] Infrastructure for shared objects Oren Laadan
2008-10-20  5:40 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 8/9] Dump open file descriptors Oren Laadan
2008-10-20  5:40 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 9/9] Restore open file descriprtors Oren Laadan
2008-10-21 19:21 ` [RFC v7][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Andrew Morton
2008-10-21 20:41   ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-22  9:20     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-22 11:51       ` Daniel Lezcano

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