Porting the kernel
<translate> OpenVZ kernel supports x86, x86_64, IA64, power64, arm and sparc architectures as of now. Below are the quick and dirty information about how to port the kernel to yet another architecture.
- UBC: need to account any platform specific VMAs created by hand in arch specific code. i.e. if there are calls of
insert_vm_struct()
this should be accounted withub_memory_charge()
. Didn't find such thing on sparc64.
- If there are user triggerable
printk()
's (related to the user, not the system as a whole) better replace them withve_printk()
. Otherwise user can flood (DoS). minor actually.
- Call to functions
find_task_by_pid()
,for_each_process()
anddo_each_thread()
/while_each_thread()
should be replaced with it's counterparts -find_task_by_pid_XXX()
,for_each_process_XXX()
anddo_each_thread_XXX()
/while_each_thread_XXX()
, whereXXX
is eitherall
orve
. Hereall
means that all system processes in the system will be scanned, whileve
means that only the container accessible from this task (current context -get_exec_env()
) will be visible. So you need to decide whether the code in question is about system or user context.
task->pid
should be changed withvirt_pid(task)
in some places. The rule is simple: user should see only virtual pids, while kernel operate on global pids. e.g. in signals, virtual pid should be delivered to app.
- In interrupt handlers one need to set global host (CT0) context. i.e.
set_exec_env()
,set_exec_ub()
. i.e. interrupt handlers are running in CT0 context.
- In
kernel_thread()
one needs to prohibit kernel threads in container. Mostly security related...
- Extend
show_registers()
(orshow_regs()
) to show current container.
utsname
should be virtualized. This mostly means thatsystem_utsnames
should be replaced withve_utsname
. See any arch code for this.
- Some exports will be required. e.g.
show_mem()
and probablycpu_khz
. Easy.
- Everything else are bugfixes.
All these are straightforward and really simple, so it should take a few hours to do.
External links
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