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Igor Svilenkov Bozic f78bea8d34 zdtm: gcs: add opt-in GCS test support for AArch64
Introduce an opt-in mode for building and running ZDTM static tests
with Guarded Control Stack (GCS) enabled on AArch64.

Changes:
 - Support `GCS_ENABLE=1` builds, adding `-mbranch-protection=standard`
   and `-z experimental-gcs=check` to CFLAGS/LDFLAGS.
 - Export required GLIBC_TUNABLES at runtime via `TEST_ENV`.
 - %.pid rules to prefix test binaries with `$(TEST_ENV)`
   so the tunables are set when running tests.
 - Makefile rules for selectively enabling GCS in tests

Usage:
    # Build and run with GCS enabled
    make -C zdtm/static GCS_ENABLE=1 posix_timers
    GCS_ENABLE=1 ./zdtm.py run --keep-img=always \
        -t zdtm/static/posix_timers

By default (`GCS_ENABLE` unset or 0), test builds and runs are
unchanged.

NOTE: This assumes that the test victim was compiled also using
      GCS_ENABLE=1 so that the proper GCS AArch64 ELF headers are present

Signed-off-by: Igor Svilenkov Bozic <svilenkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com
2025-12-07 19:20:00 +01:00
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CRIU -- A project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux

CRIU (stands for Checkpoint and Restore in Userspace) is a utility to checkpoint/restore Linux tasks.

Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to a hard drive as a collection of files. You can then use the files to restore and run the application from the point it was frozen at. The distinctive feature of the CRIU project is that it is mainly implemented in user space. There are some more projects doing C/R for Linux, and so far CRIU appears to be the most feature-rich and up-to-date with the kernel.

CRIU project is (almost) the never-ending story, because we have to always keep up with the Linux kernel supporting checkpoint and restore for all the features it provides. Thus we're looking for contributors of all kinds -- feedback, bug reports, testing, coding, writing, etc. Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md if you would like to get involved.

The project started as the way to do live migration for OpenVZ Linux containers, but later grew to more sophisticated and flexible tool. It is currently used by (integrated into) OpenVZ, LXC/LXD, Docker, and other software, project gets tremendous help from the community, and its packages are included into many Linux distributions.

The project home is at http://criu.org. This wiki contains all the knowledge base for CRIU we have. Pages worth starting with are:

Checkpoint and restore of simple loop process

Advanced features

As main usage for CRIU is live migration, there's a library for it called P.Haul. Also the project exposes two cool core features as standalone libraries. These are libcompel for parasite code injection and libsoccr for TCP connections checkpoint-restore.

Live migration

True live migration using CRIU is possible, but doing all the steps by hands might be complicated. The phaul sub-project provides a Go library that encapsulates most of the complexity. This library and the Go bindings for CRIU are stored in the go-criu repository.

Parasite code injection

In order to get state of the running process CRIU needs to make this process execute some code, that would fetch the required information. To make this happen without killing the application itself, CRIU uses the parasite code injection technique, which is also available as a standalone library called libcompel.

TCP sockets checkpoint-restore

One of the CRIU features is the ability to save and restore state of a TCP socket without breaking the connection. This functionality is considered to be useful by itself, and we have it available as the libsoccr library.

Licence

The project is licensed under GPLv2 (though files sitting in the lib/ directory are LGPLv2.1).

All files in the images/ directory are licensed under the Expat license (so-called MIT). See the images/LICENSE file.