[crac] RFR: CRaC may exit before image dump is completed [v5]

Anton Kozlov akozlov at openjdk.org
Tue Mar 7 14:21:37 UTC 2023


On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 13:37:21 GMT, Roman Marchenko <rmarchenko at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> When running CRaC with docker, java may exit before CRIU is finished dumpring because CRIU kills the original java process, and then docker immediately exits.
>> 
>> It could be reproduced with a simple Java test:
>> 
>> public class Test {
>>     public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
>>         jdk.crac.Core.checkpointRestore();
>>         System.out.println("finish");
>>     }
>> }
>> 
>> and run with docker:
>> `docker <docker_options> $JAVA_HOME/java -XX:CRaCCheckpointTo=./cr Test.java`
>> 
>> After the command above finishes, `cr/cppath` is absent in the case of failure. Or/and it will fail on restore:
>> `docker <docker_options> $JAVA_HOME/java -XX:CRaCRestoreFrom=./cr`
>> 
>> This change fixes the issue by forkin'g the main process in case of PID=1 (pid=1 means it was run with docker), and waiting for children processes are finished. This makes us sure that CRIU finalized the dump, if any. At the same time, there is no conflict with PIDs on restore, since the process being restored has PID not equal to 1, if restoring with the command above..
>
> Roman Marchenko has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Minor change

LGTM, thanks!

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Marked as reviewed by akozlov (Lead).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/crac/pull/46


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