files: Use sys_kcmp to find file descriptor duplicates v4
We switch generic-object-id concept with sys_kcmp approach, which implies changes of image format a bit (and since it's early time for project overall, we're allowed to). In short -- previously every file descriptor had an ID generated by a kernel and exported via procfs. If the appropriate file descriptors were the same objects in kernel memory -- the IDs did match up to bit. It allows us to figure out which files were actually the identical ones and should be restored in a special way. Once sys_kcmp system call was merged into the kernel, we've got a new opprotunity -- to use this syscall instead. The syscall basically compares kernel objects and returns ordered results suitable for objects sorting in a userspace. For us it means -- we treat every file descriptor as a combination of 'genid' and 'subid'. While 'genid' serves for fast comparison between fds, the 'subid' is kind of a second key, which guarantees uniqueness of genid+subid tuple over all file descritors found in a process (or group of processes). To be able to find and dump file descriptors in a single pass we collect every fd into a global rbtree, where (!) each node might become a root for a subtree as well. The main tree carries only non-equal genid. If we find genid which is already in tree, we need to make sure that it's either indeed a duplicate or not. For this we use sys_kcmp syscall and if we find that file descriptors are different -- we simply put new fd into a subtree. Signed-off-by:Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by:
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
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