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Checkpoint-Restore in userspace (CRIU) is a powerful tool that can snapshot a running process and later restore it on same or a remote machine but expects the processes that have a device file (e.g. GPU) associated with them, provide necessary driver support to assist CRIU and its extensible plugin interface. Thus, In order to support the Checkpoint-Restore of any ROCm process, the AMD Radeon Open Compute Kernel driver, needs to provide a set of new APIs that provide necessary VRAM metadata and its contents to a userspace component (CRIU plugin) that can store it in form of image files. This introduces some new ioctls which will be used to checkpoint-Restore any KFD bound user process. KFD only allows ioctl calls from the same process that opened the KFD file descriptor. Since these ioctls are expected to be called from a KFD criu plugin which has elevated ptrace attached privileges and CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE capabilities attached with the file descriptors so modify KFD to allow such calls. (API redesigned by David Yat Sin) Suggested-by: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Signed-off-by: David Yat Sin <david.yatsin@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.