fix(nvsnap): make TensorRT-LLM checkpointable, unblock NIM capture, and stop repeat captures from corrupting the container - #893
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First step in severing libnvsnap_intercept from the runtime path. The library stays in-tree and keeps building - it is wanted for multi-GPU peer-state work. What goes is the plumbing that puts it in front of a workload. criu-v2 dumps and restores inside the container's own namespaces, so CRIU sees the mount tree natively and binds unix sockets in its own namespace on restore. Nothing needs a userspace shim to drain io_uring, flush libuv or rebuild ZMQ sockets across the boundary. checkpoint_v2.go states this directly, and criu-v2 is the only CRIU engine now. The agent's bundle-stage initContainer wrote two trees: NVSNAP_BUNDLE_TOOLS_DST (criu, cuda-checkpoint, restore-entrypoint) and NVSNAP_BUNDLE_LIB_DST (the intercept payload: libnvsnap_intercept.so, patched uvloop wheels, libuv, libzmq, sitecustomize). Only the second is dead. This drops phase 2 of restore-bundle-init.sh and its sanity check, removes NVSNAP_BUNDLE_LIB_DST from the DaemonSet, and corrects the comments describing the old two-tree layout. Tool staging is untouched. Verified on dev2 with agent v0.2.35 built from this commit's tree. Both nodes, after the roll: nvsnap/ mtime 2026-08-15 03:59:48 restaged, restore-entrypoint present nvsnap-lib/ mtime 2026-08-11 23:40:36 untouched, 4 days stale init log: "restore-bundle-init: staged into /var/lib/nvsnap/bundle/nvsnap" The mtime split is the evidence: the new agent rewrote the tools tree and left the intercept tree alone. The stale nvsnap-lib directory from the previous agent remains on disk and is inert - nothing writes it, and nothing will mount it once the webhook stops injecting the volume. It cannot be removed from the agent container, which mounts /host read-only. Still to do: the workload manifests that inject the payload themselves, the webhook injection path, and the forked libuv/uvloop/libzmq/pyzmq images. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Second step in severing libnvsnap_intercept from the runtime path. Most workloads were migrated already. Auditing deploy/k8s for live injection rather than any mention found only three manifests still wiring it up: e5-mistral-replay, gemma-4-31b-nim and gemma-4-31b-nim-restore. The other nine files that matched only carry comments describing the removed stack - those are corrected separately. Removed from each: the init-container steps that unpacked uvloop wheels and copied libnvsnap_intercept.so, libuv, libzmq and sitecustomize into a /nvsnap-lib emptyDir; the get-uvloop, get-libuv and get-libzmq init containers whose only job was populating it; the emptyDir and its mounts; and the three env vars that pointed the loader at it (PYTHONPATH, LD_PRELOAD, and the /nvsnap-lib prefix on LD_LIBRARY_PATH). Kept: the get-criu / get-nvsnap init containers that stage the tools tree. criu-v2 needs those; it does not need any of the above, because it dumps and restores inside the container's own namespaces and binds unix sockets there rather than reconstructing them from outside. Verified: zero live references remain in the three (comments aside), and all three pass kubectl apply --dry-run=client against dev2 - e5-mistral-replay, bench-gemma-4-31b and bench-gemma-4-31b-restored all render. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The e2e gate refused to run: deployed agent was v0.2.35 while versions.sh still said v0.2.32. I had built with an APP_VERSION override and never updated the source of truth, which is exactly the drift rule 16 exists to catch. Bumped versions.sh and ran sync-versions rather than bypassing the check. Gate result on this branch, agent v0.2.35, dev2: Pod ready 3m 32s OK Models API ready 0m 01s OK Pre-checkpoint infer 0m 48s OK Checkpoint 0m 54s OK Restore pod ready 0m 41s OK Post-restore models 0m 01s OK Post-restore infer 0m 01s OK Total 6m 13s PASS Checkpoint 247eb2e0d5a9eb7659ce5f3b29e7f9ef, 33G, inference verified after restore. This is the empirical confirmation for the two preceding commits. v0.2.35 does not stage /nvsnap-lib, so a full CRIU capture and restore completing here shows criu-v2 has no residual dependency on the intercept payload - previously that was an argument from reading checkpoint_v2.go, now it is a measurement. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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trtllm-small was migrated to the criu-v2 convention but never validated; its
capture failed at collect-mappings and it has no row in docs/BENCHMARK.md.
TensorRT-LLM runs under HPC-X Open MPI, so UCX initializes even on one GPU,
and the pod is privileged so it sees the node's real RDMA devices. Two of the
default transports produce VMAs CRIU cannot dump:
ib -> maps /dev/infiniband/uverbsN doorbell pages. No plugin claims those:
"handle_device_vma plugin failed" (proc_parse.c:121), then
"Can't handle non-regular mapping on 364's map" (proc_parse.c:699).
sysv -> UCX's shm transport allocates a SysV segment next to its POSIX one.
criu-v2 nsenters into the container's IPC ns, so CRIU sees no ipc ns
to dump and rejects it: "doesn't live in IPC ns" (cr-dump.c:511).
Restricting UCX to tcp,self,posix,cma,cuda_copy,cuda_ipc leaves the process
tree with zero infiniband and zero SYSV mappings. posix keeps shared memory
working and there is no RDMA peer on a single-GPU single-node pod.
Verified on a live pod: dump.log grew 5.9k -> 38.7k -> 232.6k lines across the
two fixes, capture now succeeds (55s, 35GB), the restore pod comes ready in
30s and serves /v1/models. Pre-checkpoint inference still passes, so the
transport change does not affect generation.
Not a full pass yet: post-restore /v1/completions hangs. Both processes are
alive and their loopback ZMQ connections are restored ESTABLISHED with empty
queues; the worker's executor loop runs while its MainThread waits in
_recv_data for a request that never arrives. That is a separate restore-side
IPC defect, tracked separately.
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…2.36 The shipped CUDA plugin registered only CHECKPOINT_DEVICES, PAUSE_DEVICES and RESUME_DEVICES_LATE. It implemented none of DUMP_EXT_FILE, RESTORE_EXT_FILE, HANDLE_DEVICE_VMA or UPDATE_VMA_MAP even though the CRIU core declares and invokes all four, so any character-device fd or device mapping that cuda-checkpoint does not itself close reached CRIU unclaimed and aborted the dump. cuda-checkpoint releases the GPU and closes the /dev/nvidia* fds before CRIU collects descriptors, which is why the common case never hit this. A node that also exposes /dev/gdrdrv keeps that fd open across the checkpoint action and it has no NVIDIA major, so nothing claimed it. Base is v0.0.19, not a rebuild of v0.0.15: v0.0.16 through v0.0.18 are already published, so v0.0.19 is the first free tag. The stale local v0.0.15 tag produced by an earlier build has been dropped so it no longer shadows the published image with different content. Not yet validated on a cluster. The plugin change affects every workload on the CRIU path, so the full sweep has to be re-run before this is trusted. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The previous pin (31d90a8a) sat on the io-uring-cr side branch while criu-dev, the fork's default branch, had fallen 87 commits behind it. io-uring-cr has now been merged into criu-dev, so the pin moves to that single line and picks up the CUDA plugin device-fd hooks built into base v0.0.19. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
A cachedir restore could never mount. The capture reported success and
wrote 2.1G to disk, then the restore pod sat in ContainerCreating until
the readiness timeout:
MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "nvsnap-<hash>-cachedir":
hostPath type check failed:
/var/lib/nvsnap/cache/<hash>/tree/volumes/cachedir is not a directory
Capture and restore derived the on-disk location independently. The
writer used CaptureSource.DstSubpath and, for cachedir mode, deliberately
placed the volume at the tree root ("contents land at the PVC root", so a
rox PVC can be mounted straight at the cache dir). Every reader instead
inferred the location from VolumeMeta.Type, which for cachedir is the
underlying emptyDir, giving volumes/cachedir/ -- a path nothing had
written. The two sides had no way to disagree out loud.
Record the layout instead of inferring it. VolumeMeta.Subpath carries the
same value the writer passed as DstSubpath, so the artifact describes
itself. It is a pointer because "" is a real location -- the tree root --
and has to be distinguishable from a manifest written before the field
existed.
VolumeSubpath now returns (subpath, ok). Previously "" meant both "tree
root" and "cannot derive", and Local.Mount rejected it, so a root-mounted
capture was inexpressible even when written correctly. Manifests without
Subpath still resolve by inference, which stays accurate for every layout
inference ever described correctly (rootfs, rootfs-extract, user-data
volumes). Legacy cachedir artifacts get no shim: they have never restored,
so there is nothing to preserve and a shim would fork the contract
permanently.
Local.Put now refuses to commit a tree that contradicts its manifest.
Every declared volume must resolve to a directory that exists, checked
before the atomic rename, turning a ten-minute restore timeout into an
immediate capture error naming the volume and the path it expected.
Also fix vllm-tp2, which exposed this. It is multi-GPU, so the agent
refuses CRIU for it and test-e2e.sh routes it to cachedir -- but it
declared nvsnap.io/path: "criu", so the manifest generator emitted a
criu-v2 restore placeholder: a sleep loop waiting for an agent-driven
restore that only happens on the criu path. A conformance test now fails
any source that requests more than one GPU while declaring "criu".
NVCA is unaffected. Its only coupling is stamping nvsnap.io/restore-from
with a hash; it does not import checkpointstore and holds no layout
knowledge, so the webhook keeps resolving everything server-side. The
manifest lives in a cluster-wide ConfigMap as JSON and the new field is
additive, so mixed agent versions interoperate during a rolling upgrade:
older agents ignore the key, newer ones treat its absence as legacy.
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
A capture whose rox PVC was deleted once could never be restored again, even with its data fully intact. The restore pod never scheduled: 0/6 nodes are available: pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims The per-capture PV is pre-bound with a claimRef carrying only name and namespace, which is what reserves a statically provisioned volume for a specific claim. On binding, Kubernetes stamps that claimRef with the PVC's UID. Because the reclaim policy is Retain, deleting the PVC leaves the PV Released with the dead UID still pinned, and a recreated PVC of the same name gets a fresh UID that no longer matches, so the binder refuses the volume. The claim then sits Pending forever. ensureSecondaryPV returned early for any existing PV, so it never reconciled that state. It now clears the stale binding while keeping the name/namespace reservation, which is the documented recovery for a Released volume. That is only safe because these PVs are per-capture, content-addressed, read-only and reserved for a deterministic claim name: the reconcile runs solely when the claimRef still names the claim being recreated, so a volume reserved for anyone else is refused loudly rather than stolen, and a Bound volume is left untouched. Kubernetes sets Released only after the claim is gone, so no live claim is disturbed. Found while validating the cachedir layout fix: with the layout corrected the restore got far enough to request its PVC, which then exposed this. Two PVs on the dev cluster were already stuck this way. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Every post-restore check on the cachedir path failed against a restore that was serving correctly. vllm-tp2 reported Restore pod ready 1m 03s OK Post-restore models 2m 02s FAIL which reads as "restored but not serving", when /v1/models was in fact answering: the pod's own readiness probe is an httpGet on that endpoint, so it could not have gone Ready otherwise. RESTORE_CONTAINER_NAME is hardcoded to "restore" per workload. That is right for criu-v2, where the restore pod is a placeholder whose single container is the bash reaper the agent restores into. The cachedir path has no placeholder: its restore target is a customer-shaped pod running the real workload, so the container carries the engine's name and every kubectl exec -c restore hit a container that does not exist. Derive the name from the capture path instead. This was latent for every cachedir workload, not just vllm-tp2 -- vllm-70b and nim-qwen3-32b carry the same mismatch between their restore manifests and the harness. With this, vllm-tp2 completes a full cachedir cycle for the first time: post-restore models 0m00s, post-restore infer 1m24s, total 7m15s PASS. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
NIM ships HPC-X, so UCX initializes even at TP=1: orted is in the process
tree and libuct_* are mapped. Its shared-memory transport allocates a SysV
segment alongside the POSIX one, and criu-v2 nsenters into the container's
IPC namespace, so CRIU sees no ipc ns to dump and refuses the mapping:
Error (criu/cr-dump.c:511): Task N with SysVIPC shmem map @...
doesn't live in IPC ns
The UCX segment sizes are byte-identical to trtllm-small's (36864 and
4296704), so this is the same failure and takes the same allowlist. It
also keeps UCX off the node's RDMA devices, whose doorbell pages no CRIU
plugin can claim; the container is privileged, so it sees them regardless
of the GPU request.
posix keeps shared memory working and cma keeps the fast intra-node path.
Measured on trtllm-small, inference time is unchanged: 1m33s before,
1m32s across three runs after.
This is only free because these pods are single-node. Multi-node
checkpoint/restore needs ib, so it needs the device mappings handled
rather than avoided; both manifests now point at the tracking issue so
the workaround is not mistaken for a general answer.
Relates to #891
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Three fixes in the criu-v2 dump path, found in sequence while getting NIM to
checkpoint. Each was only visible once the previous one was out of the way.
1. --file-locks
CRIU refuses to dump a tree holding any POSIX or BSD file lock unless told to
serialize them:
Error (criu/file-lock.c:110): Some file locks are hold by dumping tasks!
You can try --file-locks to dump them.
Inference servers take these routinely. NIM's guided decoding holds two
advisory read locks on its outlines SQLite cache (cache.db and cache.db-shm),
and anything using Python filelock (HF hub, torch inductor) does the same. A
single lock anywhere in the tree was an unconditional dump failure, so this is
on by default rather than opt-in: CRIU only serializes locks that exist, which
makes it a no-op for workloads holding none.
CRIU makes it opt-in because it cannot verify every holder of a lock is inside
the dumped tree. Here that holds structurally: we dump the GPU leader's whole
session inside the container's own mount namespace, so a lock on the container
rootfs has no possible holder outside the tree. The residual risk is a lock on
a volume shared with another pod, and the read fan-out mounts per-capture
volumes ReadOnlyMany, which cannot carry an exclusive lock.
2. Harvest through /proc/<pid>/root, not the upperdir
The harvest moved images out of, and then removed, the container's overlayfs
upperdir directly. Modifying a mounted overlay's upperdir out of band is
undefined behavior (Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst): the kernel caches
dentries for the merged view, and the directory becomes a zombie that still
lists with st_nlink == 0 while every openat inside it returns ENOENT.
That does not break the capture that does it. It breaks the next capture on the
same pod, which cannot write images, and it is unrepairable short of restarting
the container because mkdir through the overlay inherits the poisoned dentry.
Going through /proc/<pid>/root keeps all access on the overlay itself. The
upperdir is used only once the tree is gone, which is the successful
non-leave-running case where the container is being torn down regardless.
3. Stop destroying the evidence on failure
RemoveAll ran unconditionally before the error was built, so a failed harvest
deleted dump.log and the failure reported "(no dump.log)" -- the one file that
explains the failure, removed by the failure path. moveErr was also never
surfaced when runErr was set, making "wrote no log" and "harvest ate the log"
indistinguishable. RemoveAll is now gated on a successful move, the log is read
from wherever CRIU actually wrote it, moveErr is reported alongside runErr, and
the exact nsenter argv is logged so a failing dump can be reproduced by hand.
Verified on nim-llama-8b: dump 2m32s, restore 1m52s, post-restore inference OK.
Relates to #892
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…ceholder The restore placeholder ran `touch /tmp/nim.out` so the restored workload's stdout fd had a file to reopen. That predates the rootfs-diff replay, which now delivers the file with the exact contents and size CRIU recorded. The touch is no longer redundant-but-harmless; it actively breaks restore two ways. CRIU verifies the size before reopening the fd, and an empty file fails it: Error (criu/files-reg.c:2184): File tmp/nim.out has bad size 0 (expect 17058) Error (criu/files.c:1322): Unable to open fd=1 id=0x6 The replay would have written the correct file first, except touch already created it owned by the image's unprivileged user, and the agent cannot overwrite that: tar: ./tmp/nim.out: Cannot open: Permission denied The replay's tar already passes --overwrite, so this is not a missing flag: the agent lacks CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE for a file it does not own. Leaving the path absent avoids needing it at all, since tar then creates the file itself in a 1777 /tmp. tail -F already waits for a file that does not exist yet, which is what -F is for. nim-llama-8b is the only manifest that did this. Verified: nim-llama-8b e2e PASS, restore pod ready 1m52s, post-restore inference OK. Relates to #465 Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
versions.sh is the single source for the agent tag; the chart, DaemonSets, benchmark manifests and replay manifest carry pinned copies that sync-versions rewrites. Bumping without the sync leaves them on v0.2.37 and ships a stale agent. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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gazelle picked up two sources added earlier in this branch: the volumelayout_test.go srcs entry, and the yaml dep that conformance_test.go needs. The "Check BUILD files match their sources" job fails without them. Only the two nvsnap targets are included. Running gazelle also reorders attributes across unrelated Java and Rust BUILD files, which is churn from a different tool version and belongs in its own change. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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`@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/deploy/k8s/benchmarks/gemma-4-31b-nim.yaml`:
- Around line 40-47: Remove the no-op get-nvsnap init container, including its
image, command, args, and any associated empty configuration, while preserving
the remaining benchmark pod specification unchanged.
In
`@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/deploy/k8s/workloads/vllm-tp2-restore.yaml`:
- Around line 31-38: Update the restore workload manifest’s pod specification to
set automountServiceAccountToken to false, matching the source workload and
preventing default ServiceAccount credentials from being mounted.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/deploy/k8s/workloads/vllm-tp2.yaml`:
- Around line 23-32: Revise the manifest’s header comments to describe the
active cachedir/rootfs flow instead of the obsolete CRIU-v2 multi-GPU
experiment, and remove any instruction to set CAPTURE_PATH=criu-v2. Keep
nvsnap.io/path set to rootfs and ensure the documented operator guidance does
not select the unsupported CRIU path.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/agent/checkpoint_v2.go`:
- Around line 321-333: Update the CRIU-v2 dump error construction in the
runErr/moveErr handling so the harvest error remains inspectable through the
returned error chain. Replace the diagnostic-only moveErr formatting in the
relevant fmt.Errorf or equivalent with errors.Join or multiple wrapped errors
supported by the project’s Go target, while retaining the existing diagnostic
context and runErr propagation.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/checkpointstore/local.go`:
- Around line 155-162: Validate CaptureSource.DstSubpath, explicit
VolumeMeta.Subpath, and PrepareOverlayRequest.LowerDirHint before any write,
resolve, mount, or OverlayManager.Prepare operation; reject absolute paths and
cleaned paths containing parent-traversal components. Apply the checks at the
relevant capture, volume, and overlay-handler entry points, and add regression
tests covering both manifest fields and the lower-directory hint.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/scripts/versions.sh`:
- Line 70: Update NVSNAP_CRIU_REF to a complete 40-character commit SHA, and
replace the git clone --branch usage with an explicit fetch and checkout of that
SHA so the CRIU base build reliably resolves the intended commit.
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…ir roots Review findings on #893. Subpath traversal. Every subpath is joined onto a root before it is written, verified, mounted, or used as an overlay lowerdir, and filepath.Join resolves "../" rather than refusing it, so an escaping value silently lands outside the capture tree. These are not all internally generated: the agent's HTTP restore-overlay route decodes VolumeMeta straight off the wire, so Subpath, MountPath and Name all arrive from the caller. Add SafeSubpath and apply it at the three places that join: both writers (local backend and the L2 writer, before the Join, so the manifest check cannot then validate the escaped path) and VolumeSubpath, which covers the explicit Subpath and the MountPath- and Name-derived forms in one place. Overlay lowerDir. LowerDirHint bypasses hash-based resolution and is handed to OverlayManager.Prepare as the lower layer of an overlay this privileged agent mounts into a pod, so an unconstrained value let an HTTP caller expose any host directory. Confine it to the cache root. The field's comment claimed tests rely on it; nothing in the tree referenced it, so the comment is corrected rather than the behavior preserved. Error chain. The dump failure path formatted moveErr with %v, so a caller could inspect the CRIU failure but not the harvest failure. Use errors.Join so both are reachable via errors.Is/As. This is also what errorlint flagged. CRIU pin. NVSNAP_CRIU_REF was an abbreviated SHA. build-agent.sh reaches it with `git fetch --depth 1 origin <ref>`, and fetch-by-object-id needs a complete OID, so the clean-checkout path could not resolve it: fatal: couldn't find remote ref 169595fd8 Verified against the fork: the abbreviated ref fails, the full SHA fetches and is the same commit. Only the clone-and-build path fetches, so anyone with a local ../criu checkout never saw it; it broke OSS builds only. Tests cover the escaping cases for SafeSubpath, VolumeSubpath (explicit and derived), Local.Put, and the lowerDir confinement. Relates to #892 Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…ect a stale header Three review findings on #893, all in manifests. gemma-4-31b-nim ran a get-nvsnap init container whose entire body was `set -eu` with an empty volumeMounts. It staged nothing and only forced an agent-image pull before the benchmark could start. Removed; it is the only manifest that had one. vllm-tp2-restore was the single restore manifest not setting automountServiceAccountToken: false. Its own source manifest sets it, as does every other restore manifest, so a privileged multi-GPU restore pod was the one place carrying the default ServiceAccount credential for no reason. Nothing in a restored workload calls the API server. vllm-tp2's header still described the manifest as a criu-v2 multi-GPU experiment and told operators to run it with CAPTURE_PATH=criu-v2. That path is rejected outright for multi-GPU, so following the instruction fails. Rewritten to describe the cachedir flow it actually uses, and to say plainly not to force criu-v2. The header also carried a bare "#25" that resolves to an unrelated issue in this repo, so the reference is dropped rather than left misleading. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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…declare The whole webhook suite (15 tests) has been failing since the tree/manifest consistency check landed: checkpointstore: manifest declares volume "rootfs" at tree/rootfs but it was not written The check is correct and stays. It exists because a capture whose layout contradicts its own manifest is invisible until a restore pod waits out its readiness timeout on a mount that can never appear, which is how the cachedir layout bug presented. The fixtures were the problem: they seeded the store from an empty t.TempDir() while declaring volumes, asserting against a tree that could not exist in production. Add srcWith / srcForManifest, which materialize the declared subdirectories, and use them at every Put site in the package. srcForManifest derives them from the manifest for the two fixtures whose volume set is parameterized rather than literal, so they stay correct if the manifest changes. bazel test //src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/...: 18 of 18 pass. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…che root Two more review findings on #893. ci/build-image.sh reached every fork with `git clone --depth 1 --branch <ref>`. -b takes a branch or tag name and rejects a commit id, so the base image build could not resolve NVSNAP_CRIU_REF in either its abbreviated or full form; this consumer was missed when the ref was pinned to a SHA. Switch clone_fork to init + fetch + checkout FETCH_HEAD, which accepts branches, tags and SHAs alike, so one path serves all five forks (the other four are pinned to branch names). Matches how scripts/build-agent.sh reaches the same ref, and the failure message now names the abbreviated-SHA case explicitly. Verified against the real forks: the SHA ref (criu) and a branch ref (libzmq) both check out correctly through the new function. underRoot("/", ...) rejected everything: "/" already ends in a separator, so root+separator became "//" and no cleaned path is prefixed by it. A cache root of / is not a sane configuration, but failing closed on every path reads as a path bug rather than a config one. Handled explicitly, with a regression test. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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…the pod
criu-v2 restore rebuilds a tree at the exact PIDs recorded in the dump, using
clone3 with set_tid. If anything in the target PID namespace already holds one,
restore dies at the first collision:
Error (criu/cr-restore.c:1242): Can't fork for 336: File exists
The restore placeholders tried to prevent this themselves:
echo 100000 > /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid || echo "(ns_last_pid bump failed)"
That has never worked. /proc/sys is mounted read-only into a pod, so the write
returns EPERM even when the pod is privileged, and the `|| echo` swallowed it.
Every criu-v2 restore has been running with no PID protection at all, and
succeeded only when the required PIDs happened to be free.
Measured in a privileged pod on the same image:
ns_last_pid_before=10
/bin/bash: line 3: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
next-pid=13
The agent can do it: it runs on the host with a writable /proc. nsenter enters
only the PID namespace, deliberately NOT the mount namespace, so the child
allocates from the target namespace while still writing through the agent's own
/proc. Verified against a live pod: BUMP_OK, and the next PID allocated in that
namespace was 100003.
This is why NIM was the workload that failed. Its entrypoint chain pushes the
session leader to PID 336, far above where vLLM and SGLang land, so it is the
one most likely to collide with something already in the placeholder. The
source PID is stable at 336 across every capture, so this was never source-side
variance -- only luck about what else held that PID.
Best-effort by design: a failure here restores the previous behaviour rather
than breaking a restore that would otherwise work, so it warns instead of
erroring. But it warns loudly and names the consequence, because the silent
version is what hid this for so long.
The dead line is removed from all ten restore manifests that carried it, and
replaced with a note saying why a container cannot do this and where it now
happens.
This is a mitigation, not the cure. The dump does not serialize a PID namespace
("No pidns-1.img image"), so CRIU must reuse the placeholder's and hope the
PIDs are free. Restoring into a fresh PID namespace would make them free by
construction; tracked separately.
Relates to #892
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Reverts the agent-side PID floor added earlier in this branch, keeping the manifest cleanup and the finding that motivated both. The floor was meant to stop the placeholder squatting on PIDs the dumped tree needs. Measured on hardware, it does exactly that -- the agent log confirms "placeholder PID allocation pushed above the dumped range, floor=100000" -- and vllm-small still fails to restore. The collision is not where the floor looks. Evidence from the harvested restore.log. Task 290 restores its threads in order, reaches TID 339, and clone3 returns EEXIST: pie: 290: Error (criu/pie/restorer.c:2878): Unable to create a thread: -17 339 sits inside task 290's own thread span. The dumped tree is three tasks (290, 689, 690) whose PID and TID ranges overlap heavily: 290 alone owns 389 threads spanning 293-1271, which encloses the other two tasks' PIDs. The collision is inside the restored tree's PID space, so pushing the placeholder's allocations to 100001 cannot help it. The other workloads confirm the floor is not load-bearing: trtllm-small and sglang-small pass without needing it, and passed before it existed. Keeping it would ship a constant nobody can derive, with no feedback when it is wrong, for no measured benefit -- and would make a still-broken restore path look solved. Kept from the reverted work: the ns_last_pid line is still removed from the ten restore manifests. A container cannot write /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid at all (EPERM, /proc/sys is read-only in a pod, even privileged), so that line never did anything and the comment claiming it did was false. The manifests now say so. The real fix is to restore into a PID namespace where nothing has been allocated, which makes the exact-PID requirement unconditionally satisfiable rather than a gamble on the environment. Tracked separately; NIM restore stays intermittent until then. Relates to #892 Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Why
criu-v2 could not checkpoint or restore either NIM or TensorRT-LLM.
Status after this PR: TensorRT-LLM is fixed end to end. NIM now captures
reliably, but its restore remains intermittent for a cause this PR does not
fix -- see Notes.
trtllm-small failed first, in mapping collection, because UCX had mapped the
node's RDMA doorbell pages and allocated a SysV segment. Both images ship
HPC-X, so the same fix unblocked NIM's equivalent failure. NIM then needed
three more fixes on top, each only visible once the previous one was cleared,
plus a pre-existing bug in the image harvest that is not NIM-specific and
affects every workload.
The harvest bug is the one to look at first: after any successful capture, the
next capture on that same pod fails. The agent moved and removed CRIU's images
through the container's overlayfs upperdir directly, which the overlayfs docs
call undefined behavior, leaving a zombie directory (
st_nlink == 0) whoseevery
openatreturns ENOENT.test-e2e.shdeploys a fresh pod per run, so itonly ever exercises the first capture and never caught this.
What changed
Agent, criu-v2 dump path (
internal/agent/checkpoint_v2.go):--file-locks. CRIU otherwise refuses to dump any tree holding a POSIXor BSD lock. NIM's guided decoding holds two advisory read locks on its
outlines SQLite cache; anything using Python filelock (HF hub, torch
inductor) does the same. On by default rather than opt-in, since CRIU only
serializes locks that exist and it is a no-op for workloads holding none.
The safety condition CRIU cannot check itself holds structurally here: we
dump the GPU leader's whole session inside the container's own mount
namespace, so a lock on the container rootfs has no holder outside the tree,
and the read fan-out mounts per-capture volumes ReadOnlyMany, which cannot
carry an exclusive lock.
/proc/<pid>/rootwhile the tree is alive; use the upperdironly once it is gone, which is the successful non-leave-running case where
the container is being torn down anyway.
RemoveAllran unconditionallybefore the error was built, so a failed harvest deleted
dump.logand theerror read
(no dump.log).RemoveAllis now gated on a successful move,the log is read from wherever CRIU wrote it,
moveErris reported alongsiderunErr, and the exactnsenterargv is logged so a failing dump can bereproduced by hand.
Workload manifests:
UCX_TLS=tcp,self,posix,cma,cuda_copy,cuda_ipcon trtllm-small andnim-llama-8b. This is what unblocked trtllm-small, which could not be
captured at all before. Both images ship HPC-X, so UCX initializes even at
TP=1. Its
ibtransport maps
/dev/infiniband/uverbsNdoorbell pages no CRIU pluginclaims, and its shm transport allocates a SysV segment that criu-v2 cannot
dump from inside the container's IPC namespace. A positive allowlist, not
^ib,sysv, because the exclusion syntax resolves through version-dependentaliases. Note
smis not sufficient: it enables bothposixandsysv.touch /tmp/nim.outfrom the NIM restore placeholder. The rootfs-diffreplay now delivers that file at the size CRIU recorded, and the empty stub
both failed CRIU's size check and blocked the replay from fixing it.
Also in this branch: self-describing volume layout in captured trees, recovery
for a
Releasedper-capture PV whose claim UID is stale, and the cachedirrestore exec fix.
Customer Release Notes
NIM and TensorRT-LLM workloads can now be checkpointed and restored. Fixes a
bug where a second checkpoint of the same pod would fail.
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Usage
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--file-locksand the harvest change apply automatically.Testing
nim-llama-8be2e PASS on dev2, agent v0.2.41:99G checkpoint. Post-restore inference confirms the workload is serving, not
just resident, so CRIU re-acquired the file locks in the fresh container.
trtllm-smalle2e PASS 3/3 with the UCX change, having previously failed100% of the time in collect-mappings. Measured inference cost of the
UCX allowlist is not detectable: 1m33s before, 1m32s across three runs after.
Full sweep on the build containing these changes: 7 of 8 pass
(vllm-small, trtllm-small, sglang-small, e5-mistral, vllm-8b, sglang-8b,
vllm-tp2). nim-llama-8b fails at restore, not capture.
A later three-workload run confirmed trtllm-small and sglang-small still pass,
and reproduced a vllm-small restore failure twice. Both remaining failures are
the same pre-existing PID-collision class described in Notes, not regressions
from this PR: they occur after a successful capture, and the workloads that
pass do so both with and without these changes.
Not covered by tests: the dump argv is built inline with no seam, so the
--file-locksflag has no unit test and is covered by e2e only. Therepeat-capture case that the harvest bug broke also has no regression test, and
the current e2e structurally cannot provide one since it deploys a fresh pod per
run. Tracked in #892.
Notes
Restore into an already-populated PID namespace is an unfixed, pre-existing
weakness this PR exposes but does not resolve. CRIU restores a tree at the exact
PIDs recorded in the dump (
clone3(set_tid=...)), and criu-v2 restores into theplaceholder pod's existing namespace, so those PIDs have to happen to be free.
When one is not, restore dies:
Exposure scales with how many PIDs a tree needs: trtllm-small needs ~15 and
passes consistently, vllm-small needs ~721 spanning 293-1298 and NIM's root sits
at 336. An agent-side
ns_last_pidfloor was tried and reverted in this branch-- it works as designed and does not fix the failure, because the collision is
inside the restored tree's own PID space. The fix is to restore into a fresh PID
namespace, where every recorded PID is free by construction. Tracked separately.
This branch does keep the finding that the in-pod
ns_last_pidbump neverworked: a container cannot write
/proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid(EPERM even whenprivileged), so the line in ten restore manifests was a no-op with a comment
claiming otherwise. It is removed and documented.
The
UCX_TLSallowlist is correct only for single-node workloads and must notbe promoted into the admission webhook or a cluster-wide default. On multi-node
TP/PP or disaggregated serving, dropping
ibforces RDMA traffic onto TCP.Tracked in #891, along with what an actual multi-node fix requires.
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