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== Overview ==
Usually we dump not just a single process but a set of them, where every process may be sharing some resources with other processes.
Thus we need somehow to distinguish which resources are shared and which are not.
For this sake [http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/kcmp.2.html kcmp] system call has been introduced to Linux kernel.
It takes two processes and compare a resource asked, returning result similar to well known
[http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strcmp.3.html strcmp] call. This allows CRIU to track resources with a sorting algorithm.
=== Kcmp-trees ===
CRIU gather files, filesystems, vitrual memory descriptors, signal handlers and file descriptors associated with a process
each into Kcmp-tree. Thus at moment we are carrying five Kcmp-trees. Each declared with <code>DECLARE_KCMP_TREE</code> helper.
For example
<pre>DECLARE_KCMP_TREE(vm_tree, KCMP_VM);</pre>
Each tree internally represented as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree red-black] tree.
=== Requesting new ID ===
When CRIU gathers process resources it check if a resource is already sitting inside of a tree calling
<code>kid_generate_gen()</code> helper. If a resource is not in a tree - it pushed into a tree
and a caller obtains new abstract ID which may be used inside CRIU images, otherwise the helper
returns zero notifying that this kind of resource already known to CRIU and has been handled earlier.
This feature is quite important to eliminate duplication of entries inside CRIU dump images, because
two processes might share a lot of resources and dumping them multiple times would cause very serious
performance issue.
[[Category: Under the hood]]
[[Category: Under the hood]]