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| OpenVZ on Power? [message #45397] |
Thu, 01 March 2012 16:03  |
Bryson Lee
Messages: 1
Registered: March 2012
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Hi,
I'm looking for an alternative to BLCR to provide checkpoint/restart functionality for a Linux application on IBM Power hardware. Having seen some mentions that OpenVZ supports Power, I wanted to try it out.
I've tried to rebuild vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab049.6.src.rpm in Mock on an IBM JS-12 blade (Power6) running Fedora 12, and have run into a number of problems. I'll note that we have successfully rebuilt the Fedora12 2.6.32-based kernel from SRPM in the same Mock configuration.
The initial issue was that the patch-042stab049 introduced a single line of invalid syntax into arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h:
export struct page *vdso32_pages[1];
Correcting "export" to "extern" resulted in a type-redefinition compile error, since vdso32_pages is defined as IIR "static unsigned int" in the PPC vdso.c.
Removing the extern declaration from elf.h entirely, since apparently the symbol usage in the cpt/cpt_mm.h is ifdef'd by CONFIG_X86 revealed another stumbling block with undefined functions [un]charge_beancounter_fast() due to CONFIG_BEANCOUNTERS not getting defined. I added appropriate no-op definitions to the group already present in the #ifndef CONFIG_BEANCOUNTERS section of kernel/include/bc/beancounters.h, but there appears to be a larger problem in that the contents of config-vz aren't getting reflected in the final kernel config used during the RPM build.
My basic question is whether or not there's any hope of successfully generating a ppc64 OpenVZ kernel. I tried the stable RHEL5 kernel SRPM as well, but encountered a different build failure.
I note that the last e.g. vzctl version that has an RPM download for ppc64 is 3.0.26 from 2/27/2011, and that the next minor release 3.0.26.1 from about a week later has no mention of Power at all. I reviewed the -announce, -user, and -devel list archives from that timeframe, and didn't see any explicit mention of support for Power being dropped.
Is ppc[64] still a supported architecture for OpenVZ? If so, is checkpoint/restart available? How should I go about building a kernel (and, eventually the utilities) for my Fedora12 systems?
Thanks in advance,
-Bryson Lee
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| Re: OpenVZ on Power? [message #45398 is a reply to message #45397] |
Thu, 01 March 2012 17:06  |
Kirill Korotaev
Messages: 137
Registered: January 2006
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1. It should be pretty easy to make OpenVZ compilable/running on PowerPC. Typically it takes a day or so in the worst case since there is almost no code depending on platform, except for maybe syscalls and it's numbers.
2. However, checkpoint restart is not supported on PowerPC platform (originally we supported x32/x86-64 and IA64 platforms, then dropped IA64). Again, it should be pretty straightforward as 95% of state is not platform dependent. However, nobody really asked before...
Thanks,
Kirill
On Mar 1, 2012, at 20:03 , Bryson Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m looking for an alternative to BLCR to provide checkpoint/restart functionality for a Linux application on IBM Power hardware. Having seen some mentions that OpenVZ supports Power, I wanted to try it out.
>
> I’ve tried to rebuild vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab049.6.src.rpm in Mock on an IBM JS-12 blade (Power6) running Fedora 12, and have run into a number of problems. I’ll note that we have successfully rebuilt the Fedora12 2.6.32-based kernel from SRPM in the same Mock configuration.
>
> The initial issue was that the patch-042stab049 introduced a single line of invalid syntax into arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h:
>
> export struct page *vdso32_pages[1];
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> Correcting “export” to “extern” resulted in a type-redefinition compile error, since vdso32_pages is defined as IIR “static unsigned int” in the PPC vdso.c.
>
> Removing the extern declaration from elf.h entirely, since apparently the symbol usage in the cpt/cpt_mm.h is ifdef’d by CONFIG_X86 revealed another stumbling block with undefined functions [un]charge_beancounter_fast() due to CONFIG_BEANCOUNTERS not getting defined. I added appropriate no-op definitions to the group already present in the #ifndef CONFIG_BEANCOUNTERS section of kernel/include/bc/beancounters.h, but there appears to be a larger problem in that the contents of config-vz aren’t getting reflected in the final kernel config used during the RPM build.
>
> My basic question is whether or not there’s any hope of successfully generating a ppc64 OpenVZ kernel. I tried the stable RHEL5 kernel SRPM as well, but encountered a different build failure.
>
> I note that the last e.g. vzctl version that has an RPM download for ppc64 is 3.0.26 from 2/27/2011, and that the next minor release 3.0.26.1 from about a week later has no mention of Power at all. I reviewed the –announce, -user, and –devel list archives from that timeframe, and didn’t see any explicit mention of support for Power being dropped.
>
> Is ppc[64] still a supported architecture for OpenVZ? If so, is checkpoint/restart available? How should I go about building a kernel (and, eventually the utilities) for my Fedora12 systems?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Bryson Lee
> <ATT00001.c>
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| Re: OpenVZ on Power? [message #45824 is a reply to message #45398] |
Thu, 01 March 2012 20:35 |
Guido Stepken
Messages: 4
Registered: December 2007
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Am 01.03.2012 18:06, schrieb Kirill Korotaev:
> 1. It should be pretty easy to make OpenVZ compilable/running on PowerPC. Typically it takes a day or so in the worst case since there is almost no code depending on platform, except for maybe syscalls and it's numbers.
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> 2. However, checkpoint restart is not supported on PowerPC platform (originally we supported x32/x86-64 and IA64 platforms, then dropped IA64). Again, it should be pretty straightforward as 95% of state is not platform dependent. However, nobody really asked before...
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> Thanks,
> Kirill
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Hi Kirill!
You have been doing great, great job since OpenVZ, since many, many,
many providers used it (secretly). Also with Parallels, your commercial
"line" ...
But i really, really suggest, that you to migrate to Linux 3.2 AND
FreeBSD 9.0 "jails" very soon, since FreeBSD has much much advanced,
decicive features, compared to Linux: ZFS, rockstable, even under
highest overloads (50x overload you can still login), and you offer
migration paths from Linux to FreeBSD for Parallels AND FreeBSD/OpenVZ
Tnx in advance, keep up the good work!
Guido Stepken
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