Kubernetes may add one sysfs thermal_throttle entry per CPU to maskedPaths. On large Intel systems this can produce many directory masks for a single container. runc currently handles each directory mask with a separate read-only tmpfs mount, and therefore a separate tmpfs superblock. On Linux 4.18/RHEL 8 kernels, creating and tearing down many tmpfs superblocks can contend on the global shrinker_rwsem when containers start or stop concurrently. Use one read-only tmpfs for directory masks and bind-mount it over the remaining directory targets. The first non-procfs-fd directory mount is reopened through the container root fd before it is reused. File masks still bind /dev/null, and procfs fd targets keep the existing one-tmpfs-per-target behaviour because they are fd aliases rather than stable rootfs paths. If the bind-mount of the shared source fails (e.g. due to kernel restrictions), fall back to individual tmpfs mounts for all remaining directories. Tmpfs mounts use nr_blocks=1,nr_inodes=1 to minimise kernel resource usage. The bind mounts do not create additional tmpfs superblocks. They also retain the read-only mount flag inherited from the source vfsmount, so the masking semantics remain unchanged. xref: kubernetes/kubernetes#138512 xref: kubernetes/kubernetes#138388 xref: kubernetes/kubernetes#131018 Co-authored-by: Davanum Srinivas <davanum@gmail.com> Refactored-by: lifubang <lifubang@acmcoder.com> Signed-off-by: lifubang <lifubang@acmcoder.com>
libcontainer
Libcontainer provides a native Go implementation for creating containers with namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, and filesystem access controls. It allows you to manage the lifecycle of the container performing additional operations after the container is created.
Container
A container is a self contained execution environment that shares the kernel of the host system and which is (optionally) isolated from other containers in the system.
Using libcontainer
For a brief overview of using libcontainer, see example_test.go.
Container init
Because containers are spawned in a two step process you will need a binary that will be executed as the init process for the container. In libcontainer, we use the current binary (/proc/self/exe) to be executed as the init process, and use arg "init", we call the first step process "bootstrap", so you always need a "init" function as the entry of "bootstrap".
In addition to the go init function the early stage bootstrap is handled by importing nsenter.
For details on how runc implements such "init", see ../init.go and init_linux.go.
Checkpoint & Restore
libcontainer now integrates CRIU for checkpointing and restoring containers. This lets you save the state of a process running inside a container to disk, and then restore that state into a new process, on the same machine or on another machine.
criu version 1.5.2 or higher is required to use checkpoint and restore.
If you don't already have criu installed, you can build it from source, following the
online instructions. criu is also installed in the docker image
generated when building libcontainer with docker.
Copyright and license
Code and documentation copyright 2014 Docker, inc. The code and documentation are released under the Apache 2.0 license. The documentation is also released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You may obtain a copy of the license, titled CC-BY-4.0, at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.