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seize: enable support for frozen containers #2514

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@rst0git rst0git commented Nov 4, 2024

Container runtimes like CRI-O and containerd utilize the freezer cgroup to create a consistent snapshot of container rootfs changes. In this case, the container is frozen before invoking CRIU. Once CRIU successfully completes, a copy of the container rootfs diff is saved, and then the container is unfrozen. To enable GPU checkpointing support with these runtimes, we need to unfreeze the cgroup and restore it to its original state at the end.

When the CUDA plugin is installed, container checkpointing with Kubernetes fails, even for containers that don't use GPUs. This patch aims to resolve this issue.

Fixes: #2508

@rst0git rst0git requested a review from avagin November 4, 2024 20:06
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Doesn't this break the expectations of the container engines. You wrote they freeze the container to avoid changes to the container file-system. Does the container now continue to run with your change?

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rst0git commented Nov 5, 2024

Does the container now continue to run with your change?

No, we use process seizing without freezer cgroup during checkpointing (see #2475 and #2470).
After criu dump the container should remain in a frozen state.

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avagin commented Nov 7, 2024

Doesn't this break the expectations of the container engines. You wrote they freeze the container to avoid changes to the container file-system. Does the container now continue to run with your change?

Strictly speaking, this expectation was not right even before this change. CRIU does file system changes while dumping processes. For example, it creates ghost files.

I think the right expectation here is that file systems are not changed after dumping processes and this statement isn't affected by this change.

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avagin commented Nov 8, 2024

LGTM. Thanks.

Container runtimes like CRI-O and containerd utilize the freezer cgroup
to create a consistent snapshot of container root filesystem (rootfs)
changes. In this case, the container is frozen before invoking CRIU.
After CRIU successfully completes, a copy of the container rootfs diff
is saved, and the container is then unfrozen.

However, the `cuda-checkpoint` tool is not able to perform a 'lock'
action on frozen threads.  To support GPU checkpointing with these
container runtimes, we need to unfreeze the cgroup and return it to its
original state once the checkpointing is complete.

To reflect this new behavior, the following changes are applied:
 - `dont_use_freeze_cgroup(void)` -> `set_compel_interrupt_only_mode(void)`
 - `bool freeze_cgroup_disabled` -> `bool compel_interrupt_only_mode`
 - `check_freezer_cgroup(void)` -> `prepare_freezer_for_interrupt_only_mode(void)`

Note that when `compel_interrupt_only_mode` is set to `true`,
`compel_interrupt_task()` is used instead of `freeze_processes()`
to prevent tasks from running during `criu dump`.

Fixes: checkpoint-restore#2508

Signed-off-by: Radostin Stoyanov <[email protected]>
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@avagin avagin merged commit 31b38d6 into checkpoint-restore:criu-dev Nov 12, 2024
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