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feat(nvsnap): import gpushare, checkpoint support for GPU memory shared between processes - #2300
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…tion stack criu-v2 (in-namespace dump and restore with the bundled CRIU) has been the only CRIU engine for every "criu" request; the fork now restores io_uring and epoll state itself. Remove what only the retired engine used: - agent: the go-criu RPC dump and restore branches, the Plan A external mount mapping, the LD_PRELOAD quiesce and uvloop metadata helpers, the D2H multi-GPU interposition branch, the capture streamer, the restore-trigger and GPU-restore HTTP endpoints, and the NVSNAP_CRIU_V2 switch. replay_mounts.go keeps the mount classification criu-v2 uses. - restore-entrypoint binary and the nvsnap-gpu-restore tool. - webhook: the nvsnap.io/auto-inject branch and the in-pod CRIU L2 restore injection. A CRIU capture with a bound rox PVC now falls through to the agent-driven placeholder restore instead of mounting a PVC nothing reads. - server: the GPURestore flow creates a criu-v2 placeholder and POSTs /v1/restore instead of triggering an in-pod restore. - build: lib/nvsnap_intercept, lib/sitecustomize, lib/nvsnap_restore_helper, the libuv, uvloop, libzmq and pyzmq builder images, nvsnap-init, the placeholder images, and their versions.sh, ci/build-image.sh, build-agent.sh, Helm and manifest plumbing. go-criu leaves go.mod and NOTICE. - docs: THIRD-PARTY-FORKS.md now describes the one remaining fork (CRIU). Tests: go test ./..., golangci-lint (no new findings), helm lint and a render of the chart; webhook tests replace the CRIU L2 inject cases with TestL2_CRIUCapture_NotInjected. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new GPU-sharing shim exposes an unauthenticated local control channel. Through that channel, other processes on the same network can read GPU memory or stall the workload. Multi-GPU processes may also lose peer access to allocations. The validation scripts can destroy a live workload when a step fails. Resolve these issues before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1
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@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/docker/agent/gpushare/gpushare.c:
- Around line 1523-1524: Update the temp-file creation in chunk_write at
src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/docker/agent/gpushare/gpushare.c, lines
1523-1524, and in prefetch_thread at
src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/docker/agent/gpushare/nvsnap-gpu-suspend.c,
lines 975-977, to use unique names with a random suffix and open files with
O_CREAT | O_EXCL. Retry with a new name when opening fails with EEXIST.
- Around line 1096-1106: Add SO_PEERCRED validation to ctl_main after accept,
serving connections only when the peer UID is root or matches geteuid(). In
request(), validate the connected server’s credentials before msg_send, checking
the expected UID and expected PID where the PID namespace permits; reject
mismatches.
- Around line 1401-1423: Update w_alloc and valloc_restore to configure VMM
access for peer-capable devices; do not rely on cuCtxEnablePeerAccess alone for
VMM mappings. In valloc_drop and valloc_restore, push the primary context for
the allocation’s v->dev before memory operations and restore the previous
context afterward, including on failure paths.
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@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/docker/agent/gpushare/nvsnap-gpu-suspend.c:
- Line 561: Update the timeout selection in the command-handling code so both
bare `load` and `load <cache_dir>` commands receive the 3600-second timeout.
Preserve the existing timeout behavior for `release` and other commands.
Review comments at @src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/docs/GPUSHARE.md:
- Around line 105-109: Update the Validation intro in GPUSHARE.md to identify
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct only for the results it describes, and state Qwen2.5-7B for
the in-place suspend/resume cycles. In the suspend step, document creating the
GPU map file with nvsnap-gpu-suspend gpus redirected to /ckpt/<id>/gpus so it
exists for the CRIU example.
Review comments at @src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/scripts/build-agent.sh:
- Line 214: Update the gpushare copy step in build-agent.sh to copy source files
without carrying over locally built libnvsnap_gpushare.so or nvsnap-gpu-suspend,
so make rebuilds the binaries for the target architecture.
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- Around line 41-51: Add an EXIT trap around the suspended interval in the cycle
script so failures after `suspend` automatically attempt to resume the
processes; clear the trap once the normal `resume` in the cycle completes.
Anchor the change to the `suspend` and `resume` commands, and ensure cleanup
failures do not mask the original failure.
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@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/tests/gpushare/k8s/vllm_criu_bench.sh:
- Line 21: Update the script’s `set -uo pipefail` to enable errexit so failures
in suspend, stop, tar, and resume halt execution; explicitly guard any commands
that are allowed to fail so they do not trigger an unintended exit.
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- Line 4: Update the usage comment in the vLLM CRIU manifest to reference the
script that uses it, tests/gpushare/k8s/vllm_criu_bench.sh, instead of the
nonexistent vllm_criu_migrate.sh. Preserve the instruction to run
criu-build.yaml on the node first.
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- Around line 7-8: Update the usage comment in the vllm-tp2 configuration so
both example commands use the files’ actual tests/gpushare/k8s/ paths.
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- Around line 284-287: Update the fork loop in the test setup to detect fork()
failures and enter cleanup immediately; track successfully spawned child
processes and make the fail cleanup signal only those children, avoiding unset
or negative pids.
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…ed between processes cuda-checkpoint cannot checkpoint a process that maps GPU memory imported from another process, so multi-GPU (tensor-parallel) workloads only checkpointed with NCCL P2P/NVLS, CUDA IPC (vLLM custom all-reduce) and friends disabled, at a cost in serving throughput. Import libnvsnap_gpushare.so, an LD_PRELOAD shim that tracks that memory, releases it before the driver checkpoint and re-creates it at the same virtual addresses after restore (cuMem imports, NVLS multicast objects, CUDA IPC on cuMem, fabric handles, page-locked host memory), and nvsnap-gpu-suspend, which drives it and the CUDA checkpoint API. For CRIU, GPU memory the shim saves goes to a content-addressed chunk store (weights stored once across checkpoints, zero chunks skipped, O_DIRECT, fdatasync before rename) with an optional node-local cache, keeping it out of the CRIU image. - docker/agent/gpushare: shim, tool, Makefile; built in a new CUDA 13 stage of Dockerfile.base (amd64 and arm64) into /criu-bundle; base image v0.0.23. - tests/gpushare: GPU tests and Kubernetes scripts (in-place cycles, full CRIU checkpoint/restore benchmark). - docs/GPUSHARE.md. No change to the agent, webhook or server. Validated with vLLM 0.20.0 at default flags, Qwen2.5-72B TP=4 on GB300 (driver 610.57.04): checkpoint on one node, restore on another from a PVC in 87.6 s new pod to first token (about 56 s with the node cache prefetched), output identical; a cold start with the model download took 1350 s. Relates to #2299 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Shim and tool: - Authenticate the control socket with SO_PEERCRED. Abstract sockets have no permissions, so a sidecar or, with hostNetwork, any process on the node could request exports of GPU memory, aim release at any path, or hang the workload with quiesce. The control thread now serves only peers in its pid namespace running as root or as its user. Clients (the shim and nvsnap-gpu-suspend) talk only to a socket owned by the pid in its name. - Name chunk temp files randomly and create them with O_EXCL, in the shim and in cache-prefetch: writers in other pods share pids and could truncate each other's temp file under a trusted hash. - Multi-GPU processes: follow cuCtxEnablePeerAccess and cuCtxDisablePeerAccess and grant peers cuMemSetAccess on the cuMem memory behind cuMemAlloc (and on memory opened through CUDA IPC), for allocations made before and after, and when re-creating them after a restore. Save and load each allocation on its own device. - Give "load <cache>" the 3600 s timeout that bare "load" had. - Fall back to buffered I/O when a filesystem accepts O_DIRECT at open but fails the read or write with EINVAL. - Keep cache fills off the restore's critical path: a load that misses the cache no longer writes it; cache-prefetch fills it. - release creates the store directory; abort on allocation failure in the shim's tables; reject a zero allocation granularity. Build: copy only gpushare sources into the base image build context, so locally built binaries cannot be packaged. Tests: - test_multi_gpu: one process, two GPUs with peer access, through two suspend/resume rounds (host memory, chunk store), a buffer allocated after restore, and disabling and enabling peer access again. The previous shim faulted on the first peer write. - The k8s manifests take libnvsnap_gpushare.so and nvsnap-gpu-suspend from the agent base image's /criu-bundle instead of building them; fix stale paths; size vllm-tp2's memory limit for GB300. - vllm_criu_bench.sh stops on any failed step and times out its waits; vllm_ckpt_cycle.sh resumes the workload if a step fails while it is suspended; test_checkpoint_nccl no longer signals pid -1 when fork fails. Docs: control socket access, per-tenant stores (the chunk hash is not cryptographic), store garbage collection and hostNetwork limits, creating the --gpu-map file, results restated per model. Validated on GB300 (driver 610.57.04) and RTX PRO 6000 (x86, driver 580): GPU tests pass; vLLM 0.20.0 Qwen2.5-7B TP=4 in-place 3/3 cycles; Qwen2.5-72B TP=4 checkpoint on one node and restore on another from a PVC in 87.8 s new pod to first token, 66.7 s from the node cache, output identical. Relates to #2299 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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…ants The chunk store's requirement is about who can write to it, not about tenants: a store written only by the checkpointed pod and mounted read-only by the pods restored from it adds no trust beyond the checkpoint itself, which fits checkpoints shared read-only across namespaces. State that, and that the node cache is optional and, if used, needs a directory per store or a trusted filler. Relates to #2299 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…ap/criu-v2-only Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> # Conflicts: # src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/cmd/restore-entrypoint/BUILD.bazel # src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/agent/BUILD.bazel # src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/criu/BUILD.bazel # src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/webhook/BUILD.bazel
The Bazel BUILD files in nvsnap were not regenerated as packages and files changed on this stacked branch; check-gazelle only runs on pull requests to main, so the drift was not reported. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Critical review of head 52113b0. Five inline findings cover lock synchronization, resume recovery, state-file safety, release ordering, and access-permission tracking. Validation used extracted PR functions with mocked CUDA calls and an isolated filesystem reproduction. GPU tests were not run.
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| if (jobs[i].ret != 2) continue; | ||
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| if (jobs[i].ret != 0) failures++; |
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[P1] Track thread creation separately from the lock result
jobs[i].ret is both the worker result and the thread-started marker, and both threads write it without synchronization. If a worker finishes with -1 before the join loop reaches it, ret != 2 skips the join and the failed lock is never counted. The parent can also overwrite a completed result with 2 after pthread_create(). This lets lock_all() report success while a rank remains unlocked. A CPU-only reproduction using the extracted functions and a mocked failing lock reported success in 20/20 runs. Keep a separate started flag, join every successfully created thread, and inspect its result only after joining.
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Fixed in 45a3b10. lock_job has a separate started flag. lock_all joins every started thread and reads ret only after the join, so a failed lock is always counted. each_par and ctl_all_par already read results only after joining.
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| if (full_restore(pids, n) == 0 && remap_all(pids, n) >= 0) break; |
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[P1] Allow resume to retry after driver restore has completed
full_restore() unlocks every rank before remap_all() runs. If loading a chunk or remapping then fails, the holder keeps the CPU threads frozen, but their CUDA state is already RUNNING. The next resume calls full_restore() again, which rejects RUNNING at lines 430-435, so it never reaches remap_all() even after the underlying problem is fixed. resume_unheld() has the same issue. A CPU-only reproduction confirmed that a successful restore leaves both ranks RUNNING and the next restore returns failure. Track completed phases and permit retrying the unfinished remap phase without repeating driver restore/unlock.
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Fixed in 45a3b10. full_restore treats RUNNING pids as already restored and unlocked, and unlocks only LOCKED ones. A retried resume therefore reaches remap, and since fbb9e9b remap/resume restore only what is still dropped, repeating them is safe. test_release_rollback case 5 covers it: the chunk store is moved away, resume fails after the driver restore, then the store is put back and a second resume completes.
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| int fd = open(log, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0600); |
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[P1] Secure the predictable state directory before opening files
When this tool runs as root in a filesystem shared with an unprivileged process, that process can precreate /tmp/nvsnap-gpu-suspend and place a <pid>.log symlink targeting another file. The mkdir() result at line 852 is ignored, and this open(O_TRUNC) follows the symlink with the tool's privileges. A safe scratch-directory reproduction confirmed that the target file is truncated. The holder/result files also use path-based fopen() without verifying the directory. Validate ownership and permissions of an existing state directory, reject symlink directories, and use directory-relative opens that reject symlinks for all state files.
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Fixed in 45a3b10. The tool uses /tmp/nvsnap-gpu-suspend only if it is a real directory owned by its euid with mode 0700, opened with O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW and checked with fstat. Every state file is opened, tested and removed relative to that directory fd (openat/faccessat/unlinkat) with O_NOFOLLOW. Checked in a pod: a directory owned by another uid, a symlink to another directory and a world-writable mode are all refused, and nothing is written through the symlink.
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| cache_dir ? " " : "", cache_dir ? cache_dir : ""); | ||
| if (shared && ctl_all_par(pids, n, release) < 0) { |
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[P1] Block memory operations before releasing GPU mappings
This releases shared mappings and saves/unmaps the shim's allocations before taking the driver lock or freezing application threads. Quiescence closes the kernel/graph launch gate and drains existing GPU work, but the shim does not gate copies or memsets. An application thread can therefore submit a new transfer after the synchronization completes, while release is saving or unmapping its source/destination. That can produce inconsistent checkpoint contents or invalid-pointer failures under active traffic. Establish a barrier that also covers those operations before release, while keeping the control and CUDA restore threads runnable. This is a static finding; it needs a GPU stress test with concurrent transfers during suspend.
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Confirmed on GPUs, and fixed in 45a3b10. test_checkpoint_nccl (4 ranks, GB300) failed in about 4 of 5 runs before this: a rank died during release. Copies, memsets, peer and 2D/3D copies, stream memory operations and cuLaunchHostFunc now wait in a second gate, under both default and per-thread (_ptds/_ptsz) entry points. quiesce closes the launch gate, drains the GPU, closes the memory gate, waits for calls inside it, then drains again. Holding copies from the start deadlocked instead, because NCCL's proxy thread issues copies its in-flight kernels need. Result: 8/8 runs pass. Array copies, managed prefetch and batched copies are not held; that's documented.
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[P2] Preserve access grants from earlier cuMemSetAccess calls
cuMemSetAccess() updates permissions for the locations specified in that call; the descriptor array is not a complete replacement for all existing permissions. For example, granting GPU 0 access and then granting GPU 1 access in a separate call leaves both devices accessible before suspend, but this code saves only GPU 1. do_remap() then reapplies only GPU 1's descriptor, so GPU 0 loses access after restore. The multicast branch has the same problem. A CPU-only reproduction of this wrapper confirmed the lost owner permission. Merge saved permissions by location and account for the affected address range. CUDA contract: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-driver-api/cuda_driver_api/group__CUDA__VA.html
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Fixed in 45a3b10. cuMemSetAccess descriptors are merged per location (acc_merge): later calls add or update locations, and PROT_NONE removes one. test_multi_gpu covers it with an imported allocation given access by GPU 0 and GPU 1 in two separate calls; both keep access across host-memory and chunk-store restores.
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Found while running the nvsnap integration (#2318) end to end: the rollback after a partially failed Trigger: Same on the TP=4 run (pids 697-700). Suggested fix: have Two smaller requests from the same run:
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When "release" failed partway, the tool's rollback ("load", "remap",
"resume") restored everything as if all of it had been dropped: remap
re-registered page-locked host buffers that were never unregistered and
failed with CUDA_ERROR_HOST_MEMORY_ALREADY_REGISTERED, leaving the
workload's state unclear. Imports, multicast mappings, binds and objects
were likewise marked dropped even when the driver call failed, and
exported fds were closed.
- release marks each object dropped only once it is: unmapped imports
(new), released imports, multicast mappings, binds and objects, host
buffers (new). remap and resume restore exactly those, including an
import unmapped but still held. Exported fds are closed only after a
complete release. The error names the step that failed.
- The tool reports whether a rollback worked, and rollback counts pids
it could not bring back to RUNNING.
- release creates --ckpt-dir as it does the store; gpus takes an output
file.
test_release_rollback makes suspend fail before anything is released,
partway (an allocation cannot be saved, host buffers still registered)
and after a complete release (the driver lock fails), checks the
workload works as before each time, then checkpoints normally with an
import its exporter freed. With the previous code each failure ended in
ALREADY_REGISTERED.
Relates to #2299
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Thanks, reproduced and fixed in fbb9e9b. It was broader than host buffers.
Each time it checks that the workload works as before, then runs a normal checkpoint that includes an import its exporter freed. With the previous code, every failure ended in Validated on GB300 (driver 610):
My first version of the fix had a bug of its own. A mapping whose exporter had freed the memory kept its "unmapped" mark, and the rollback path then re-mapped it with a stale handle, which crashed. vLLM caught it (3 such mappings per rank). It's fixed in the same commit and covered by the test.
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Review findings on the gpushare shim and nvsnap-gpu-suspend: - Hold copies, memsets and stream memory operations during a checkpoint, not only launches: an app thread past the drain could touch memory "release" was freeing, and a rank could crash mid-release (test_checkpoint_nccl failed about 4 runs in 5). They wait in a second gate that closes only after the GPU drained, then the GPU is drained again: NCCL's proxy thread issues copies its kernels in flight need. Synchronous calls are held under their per-thread (_ptds) entry points too. - lock_all: track thread creation apart from the lock result, join every started thread and read its result only after the join; a failed lock could be reported as success. - resume can be retried after the driver restore succeeded and a later step failed: full_restore treats RUNNING pids as done and unlocks only LOCKED ones; remap and resume restore only what is still dropped. - State files: use /tmp/nvsnap-gpu-suspend only if it is a directory of the tool's user with mode 0700, and open files in it relative to it without following symlinks, so another user cannot redirect the tool's writes. - cuMemSetAccess grants are merged per location instead of replaced by the last call, so remap grants every device that had access. Tests: test_release_rollback adds a resume that fails after the driver restore (the chunk store is missing) and succeeds when retried; test_multi_gpu adds an imported allocation given access by two devices in separate cuMemSetAccess calls. On GB300 (driver 610): test_checkpoint_nccl 8/8 runs, the other GPU tests pass, vLLM Qwen2.5-7B TP=4 3/3 in-place cycles with identical output; the state directory refuses a foreign owner, a symlink and a world-writable mode. Docs: the calls the gate holds, the state directory rule, and that on x86 with driver 580.126.16 the driver's restore of processes sharing GPU memory fails (vLLM TP=2), with or without the shim's steps. Relates to #2299 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
CRIU writes restore.log into the images directory, so a read-only /checkpoints failed every restore with "Can't create log file restore.log: Read-only file system". Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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The catalog is content-addressed: a later capture of the same hash keeps
the first checkpoint's id. The capture record took the newest id, so a
restore on another node asked the catalog for a checkpoint it never
registered ("catalog returned 404: checkpoint not found"). The record
now keeps the first checkpoint of a hash, like the catalog.
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With CRIU as the capture method, GPU memory without the gpushare library goes into the CRIU image through the CUDA plugin: 93 GB for a 1.1B vLLM whose empty KV pool was mostly zeros, 20 s to restore. On a CRIU cluster every GPU pod now runs under the gpushare library unless annotated nvsnap.io/gpushare: "false", so its GPU memory goes to the chunk store (zero pages as holes, deduplicated, loaded in parallel with O_DIRECT) instead. The capture record notes a gpushare checkpoint, and its restore placeholder mounts the checkpoint's chunk store at the store path and the library, instead of the pod's own empty store. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Helm charts deploy an instance as several pods (a StatefulSet or a LeaderWorkerSet group), which a per-pod checkpoint cannot restore: the ranks hold connections to each other and share GPU memory across nodes. On a CRIU cluster the agent on rank 0's node now checkpoints a Ready instance as one group (group checkpoint when it has more than one pod) and records one checkpoint per rank under the instance's configuration key, in a ConfigMap that is also the capture lock. The webhook admits each pod of a later instance of that configuration and size as its rank's restore placeholder, with the model and cache mounts the source had, and the agent restores the instance as one group once every placeholder runs. A failure blocks the checkpoints and deletes the pods, so their replacements start fresh. Each rank of a group checkpoint now gets its own catalog hash: the ranks share the configuration hash, so the catalog folded them into one row and a cross-node restore of another rank fetched the wrong checkpoint. Restore reserves the placeholder's pid range itself when asked, for group and single placeholders alike, and a pod is checkpointed by one caller at a time. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
A bare pod has no controller, so it never matched its own instance and its capture retried forever. Instance capture and restore now skip pods with no LeaderWorkerSet group and no controller. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Multi-pod engines come in shapes nvsnap did not group: a Dynamo multi-node worker under Grove is a leader and a worker with different controllers and no ordinal in their names, so each pod looked like an instance of one, and pausing one of them would stall the other half of the engine. A Grove scaling group replica is now an instance, ranked by its pod index and sized by the template's pod count, for the compile cache and the CRIU capture alike. And before capturing, the agent checks the instance against the engine's own command line: the pods must hold every GPU the engine uses (tensor x pipeline parallel), and an engine started with multi-node flags is never captured as a single pod. Anything else is skipped with the reason logged. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
A chart that spells out each rank's flags (--node-rank N, --headless on the ranks after the first) or sets NODE_RANK gave every rank of one engine its own configuration hash, so the ranks never formed a group for the compile cache or the instance capture. Those flags and that env now stay out of the hash, in the token and the shell-string forms. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Placing the gpushare library on every GPU pod of a CRIU cluster broke multi-node engines: the library hides multi-node NVLink memory unless the pod is marked as sharing it, and a TP=8 engine across two GB300 nodes then hung 30 minutes in its first collective and restarted, over and over. The default now leaves out pods whose engine spans pods (a multi-node flag on the command line, or a group of more than one pod). The nvsnap.io/gpushare annotation still opts such a pod in. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Without the gpushare library a GPU checkpoint goes through the CUDA plugin, which writes the whole GPU memory into the image and pauses the engine for minutes. Multi-pod engines now run without the library by default, so the instance capture skips any instance that does not run under it. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Leaving multi-pod engines without the gpushare library made them run but left nothing to checkpoint them with. They now get the library with fabric sharing on (NVSNAP_GPUSHARE_FABRIC=1), so their multi-node NVLink memory stays usable and a group checkpoint can suspend and re-establish it. nvsnap.io/gpushare-fabric set either way still wins, and single-pod engines are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
A group checkpoint of a two-node vLLM engine failed in the GPU suspend and the engine then shut itself down, restarting both pods. Until the multi-node suspend handles that workload, a failed capture must not be able to take an instance down by default: multi-pod instances are now captured only when their pods carry nvsnap.io/criu-capture: "true". Single-pod instances are captured as before. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Debugging a GPU suspend on an NVCF function needs switches in the engine's environment (the gpushare library's debug log, NCCL's), and the function's pods are built by NVCA, not by whoever is debugging. The chart value webhook.debugEnv now lists label matches and variables; the webhook sets them on the GPU containers of matching pods at admission, leaving any variable the container already sets as it is. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
mergePatchPlan turns a second whole-array add of a container's env or volumeMounts, or of the pod's volumes, into appends, but only recognised []any values. Patchers write typed slices ([]corev1.EnvVar, []corev1.Volume), so on a pod without the list the second add replaced the first: the debug variables erased the gpushare library's variables on a container with no env of its own. Any slice is now recognised. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
A container's workload normally is its pid 1 (exec vllm serve, or a
shell running the engine). The in-namespace dump of such a tree records
no pid namespace, and CRIU refuses to restore it into the placeholder's:
Error (criu/cr-restore.c:2104): This process tree can only be
restored in a new pid namespace.
So restores worked only for engines detached under setsid, which real
charts do not do.
A pid-1 workload is now dumped from the agent's namespaces with --root,
so the images carry its pid namespace. The container's network namespace
and every mount CRIU cannot rebuild itself (node bind mounts, volumes,
the cgroup mount, CDI device and driver files) are declared external,
keyed by mountpoint, and listed in a marker file in the checkpoint.
The restore runs inside the placeholder: a new pidns-restore-exec
subcommand of the (static) agent binary, staged into the placeholder,
gives CRIU a private mount namespace with a procfs of the placeholder's
pid namespace and the pod's network namespace on fd 3, then execs it.
CRIU creates a nested pid namespace for the tree, binds each external
mount to the same path in the placeholder (same pod spec), joins the
pod's IPC namespace and keeps the source's hostname in a nested UTS
namespace (the placeholder's /proc/sys is read-only). gpushare resumes
the processes in the nested namespace.
Verified by hand on a GB300 node with a CPU-only pid-1 server: the
outside dump records the pid namespace, and the restore gets through
namespace creation and the root mount; the end-to-end restore through
the agent is next. Also adds the files from earlier commits that were
missing from the Bazel targets.
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
… memory
Two cases made the driver checkpoint (610) fail on TP workers of a
multi-node vLLM build with its own multi-node custom all-reduce and
FlashInfer's multi-node all-reduce fusion:
- A legacy CUDA IPC export (cuIpcGetMemHandle) of small cuMemAlloc memory,
below the shim's cuMem threshold: the driver's checkpoint thread reads a
NULL table and the process dies (SIGSEGV). The custom all-reduce takes
such a handle for its signal buffer and, across nodes, never opens it.
The shim now hands out its own handle for legacy memory too, and makes
the driver export only when a peer opens the handle ("ipcget" on the
control socket).
- Allocations the app created with cuMemCreate and shares (FlashInfer's
512 MiB fabric workspace): the driver checkpoint fails with
CUDA_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY creating a CPU mapping of one. "release" now
saves and frees every shared allocation of the app that is mapped once
from offset 0, like the shim's own cuMem allocations, and "load"
creates it again at the same VA with the same properties and access.
The app's handle stands for the new allocation; multicast bindings and
swaps are translated once each, since a new handle may reuse a freed
handle's value. Re-created allocations export after the restore, so
they need no replace_alloc.
test_ipc_legacy covers an unopened handle across suspend and resume and
an open after it; test_large_export now goes through the new path. The
gpushare tests pass on GB300 with driver 610.57.04 (test_ipc_release, a
probe without the shim, shows the driver crash on a legacy export).
Relates to #2299
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Rebuilt from 5d000db (gpushare: lazy legacy IPC export and the cuMem re-creation path for vLLM workers) with CRIU 52877d285 unchanged, for amd64 and arm64, and copied to the production registry by digest. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The pid-namespace dump treated every tmpfs as one CRIU recreates. That holds for a tmpfs mounted at its own root in the container, and for binds of part of one (the runtime's /proc masks, bound from /dev's tmpfs). A tmpfs bound in from the node is neither: on GB300 the NVIDIA driver's firmware files come from a tmpfs on the host, and the dump failed with "gsp_tu10x.bin doesn't have a proper root mount". Such mounts are now external, like the node's other bind mounts. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Multi-pod instance capture needs the nvsnap.io/criu-capture annotation on the pods, which an NVCF function's chart may not set. The chart value agent.criuCaptureOptIn now lists label matches (for example the function id) whose pods count as opted in. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…ode network Two problems found capturing a two-node vLLM engine whose workload is its containers' pid 1: - The dump failed with "Zombies with threads are not supported". A whole-namespace dump takes every process in it, including the gpushare suspend tool's holder, which exits after freezing the workload and is never reaped by the engine. The dump now waits until no process in the namespace is a zombie that still has threads. - CRIU locks TCP in the network namespace it runs in, and the agent runs on the node's network. The pid-namespace dump and restore now run CRIU in the pod's network namespace. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…stored The restore watcher remembered the pods it had restored only in memory. After an agent restart (any rollout) it found a restored pod again, the restore refused because the pod runs its GPU workload, and the failure path blocked the checkpoint and deleted the pod: every rollout killed every restored workload. A restored placeholder is now annotated nvsnap.io/criu-restored and is never a restore target again, and a refusal because the pod already runs its workload neither blocks the checkpoint nor deletes the pod. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The pid-namespace dump recorded the GPU-identity mounts as external (/dev/nvidia<N>, the container toolkit's /run/nvidia-container-devices/ GPU-<uuid>). A restore placeholder is usually given other GPUs, so the restore failed: "Can't stat mountpoint .../GPU-7e1f1942-...". Those mounts are now skipped at dump (--skip-mnt) and listed in the marker. After CRIU rebuilds the tree, the agent creates the placeholder's GPU device nodes and toolkit entries in the restored tree through its root (the pod's device cgroup admits exactly those GPUs), and the gpushare resume maps the saved GPU state onto the placeholder's GPUs, reading the GPU list from the placeholder rather than from the restored processes, which still carry the source pod's environment. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
… dump The NVIDIA container toolkit mounts /run/nvidia-ctk-hook<uuid> into each container, with a fresh UUID per container, so a restore placeholder never has the source's path and the restore failed: "Can't stat mountpoint .../run/nvidia-ctk-hook6f67b50e-...". Comparing the mounts of pods with the same spec, these and the per-GPU entries are the only per-container paths; both are now skipped at dump and the restored tree gets the placeholder's. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The container toolkit binds /proc/driver/nvidia/params out of its per-container hook tmpfs. With that tmpfs skipped, the dump failed: "./proc/driver/nvidia/params doesn't have a proper root mount". A mount of the same filesystem as a skipped one is now skipped with it, except for the node's devtmpfs, which every device node shares. The restore only creates the placeholder's entries that are missing from the restored tree, and replaces only device nodes in the restored /dev, never anything in the placeholder's own root filesystem. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The checkpoint identity of an instance capture was the configuration hash plus the rank, the same for every capture of one configuration. The catalog and the L2 volume keep one checkpoint per identity, so after a re-capture (the earlier one having been found unrestorable) they kept resolving to the first: a restore on another node would have fetched it. Instance captures now carry a capture id, and the identity includes it. Content-addressed captures (NVCA's) are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
For a CRIU capture nothing was measured: the L2 volume was sized as 80 GiB of vRAM per GPU x 1.2, an H100 guess. A 1.1 TB checkpoint of a model filling four 288 GB GPUs got 384 GiB and the copy ran out of space. The agent now passes the checkpoint's allocated size (holes excluded) and the volume is sized at 1.1x that. The failure was reported as "context canceled": a worker's error cancels the walk, and the walk's cancellation took precedence. The copy now reports the worker's error when it caused the cancellation. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…tory
The agent's init container installed a new bundle by renaming the
directory (mv dst old; mv tmp dst; rm -rf old). Every GPU pod under
gpushare bind-mounts that directory at /nvsnap, so each agent rollout
left those mounts pointing at a deleted directory. Running processes
were unaffected (the library is already mapped), but a CRIU capture of
such a pod recorded the mount as deleted and its restore failed
re-creating it ("Can't stat : Bad file descriptor").
Files are now renamed over their old copies inside the existing
directory: each replacement is atomic, mounts stay valid, and a running
process keeps the file it already mapped.
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Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…L2 copies - A pid-1 capture whose container has a mount bound from a directory since deleted on the node cannot be restored (CRIU records the mount as deleted and fails re-creating it). The dump now refuses it with the mountpoint named, instead of recording a capture that never restores. - The L2 lease (15 min, not renewed) was shorter than a 1.1 TB copy can take on a slow node, and the promote timeout (35 min) had no room for larger checkpoints: 100 min and 90 min. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…d-1 capture
The single-pod pid-1 restores got through the mounts and then failed
re-creating the engine's listening IPC socket:
Error (criu/namespaces.c:260): Can't setns 13/mnt: Invalid argument
Error (criu/files.c:1334): Unable to open fd=33 id=0x14b
CRIU re-creates a path-bound socket by entering the mount namespace of
its path, which a restore of a whole pid namespace cannot do. Those
sockets (listening, with a filesystem path) are now declared external
at dump, recorded in the marker and declared again at restore, which
CRIU requires. Abstract sockets and connected sockets are restored as
before. Ported from the earlier pid-1 work on the pidns-dump-root
branch.
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Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…und sockets
Declaring a path-bound listening unix socket external did not help: CRIU
honours unix[<inode>] only for a socket whose peer is outside the tree,
and still re-created the workload's own listener by entering its mount
namespace, which fails in a restore of a whole pid namespace ("Can't
setns 13/mnt: Invalid argument").
The dump now records each listening socket bound to a path (inode, type,
path). The restore helper, already inside the placeholder, binds a fresh
listener at each path and places them on fds 4, 5, ..., and CRIU takes
them in place of the originals (--inherit-fd fd[N]:socket:[<inode>]).
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Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
…'s GPUs A pid-1 capture restored into a nested pid namespace failed its gpushare resume with CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE for every process. The resume maps the checkpoint's GPUs onto the GPUs the tool sees, in order. Where the device plugin gives GPUs as device nodes and leaves no UUIDs in NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES (CDI; the variable is "void"), nothing limits the tool, and the restored tree's /dev holds all of the node's GPU nodes. The tool runs outside the pod's device cgroup, so it mapped onto the node's first GPU. The restored process may only open the pod's own GPU, and its driver rejected the restore. A pod restored onto the node's first GPU worked, which made the map look like the identity. When NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES does not list the GPUs, ask the placeholder: run `nvsnap-gpu-suspend gpus` in its namespaces (its /dev holds only its GPUs) and limit the resume to those with CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES. Restores that are not nested already run the tool in the placeholder's /dev. Validated on GB300 (driver 610) with the conformance deploy1 workload (TinyLlama, vLLM as pid 1): the resume limited to the placeholder's GPU restores and unlocks both GPU processes, where the unlimited one fails. Relates to #2299 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
TL;DR
This PR imports gpushare, which lets tensor-parallel workloads be checkpointed and restored with their default NCCL and engine settings. It has two parts:
libnvsnap_gpushare.sois an LD_PRELOAD shim. It releases GPU memory that processes share (NCCL P2P and NVLS, CUDA IPC, fabric handles, pinned host memory) before the driver checkpoint, and re-creates it at the same addresses after restore.nvsnap-gpu-suspenddrives the shim and the CUDA checkpoint API.GPU memory saved for CRIU goes to a content-addressed chunk store, with an optional node-local cache.
This is a self-contained import. It does not change the agent, the webhook or the server.
Additional Details
cuda-checkpointcannot checkpoint a process that maps GPU memory imported from another process. Today multi-GPU checkpoint/restore therefore only works with these transports disabled: NCCL P2P/NVLS, vLLM custom all-reduce, and so on. That costs serving throughput.What the import contains (all paths under
src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/):docker/agent/gpushare/: the shim (gpushare.c,gpushare.h), the tool (nvsnap-gpu-suspend.c), and a Makefile.docker/agent/Dockerfile.base: a newgpushare-builderstage that builds both binaries into/criu-bundle/.nvidia/cuda:13.0.3-devel-ubuntu22.04, because the tool's--gpu-mapneeds CUDA 13 headers (CUcheckpointGpuPair).scripts/build-agent.shcopies the gpushare sources, and only those, into the build context.scripts/versions.shbumps the base image tov0.0.23.tests/gpushare/: six GPU tests with a Makefile, plusk8s/scripts for an in-place suspend/resume cycle test and a full CRIU checkpoint/restore benchmark with a timing breakdown. The manifests take both binaries from the base image's/criu-bundle.docs/GPUSHARE.md: the protocol, usage, chunk store and cache, limits, and validation results.How the pieces work together:
@nvsnap-gpushare.<pid>.nvsnap-gpu-suspendsends it, in order:quiesce, thenrelease(sent to every pid at once), then the driver checkpoint (all pids in parallel).load(all at once), thenremapandresume.--store/--ckpt-dirwrite the saved memory to the chunk store. Chunks are 64 MiB, written with O_DIRECT, synced with fdatasync, then renamed into place. Zero chunks are skipped, and chunks already present in the store are not written again.--cacheadds a node-local copy of the store. Saves write through to it and loads read it first.cache-prefetchfills it, so a cache miss during a restore never waits on cache writes.cache-gcevicts from it.SO_PEERCRED). It serves only callers in the workload's pid namespace that run as root or as the workload's user. Clients talk only to the process a socket is named for.cuCtxEnablePeerAccessand grants peers access to the cuMem memory it puts behindcuMemAlloc.Limitations:
nvsnap-gpu-suspendmust run in the workload's pid and network namespaces.cache-gccovers the node cache only.Left to nvsnap's side:
This PR is stacked on #2261 (
nvsnap/criu-v2-only), which retires the old injection stack. The second commit addresses the review findings.For the Reviewer
Files to look at closely:
docker/agent/gpushare/gpushare.c, especially the release/remap of imports and multicast,valloc_drop/valloc_restore, and the chunk store.docker/agent/gpushare/nvsnap-gpu-suspend.c(the holder, parallel driver checkpoint/restore, and cache commands).Dockerfile.basestage.nvsnap/CONTRIBUTING.mdsays "There is no LD_PRELOAD injection stack any more". The shim is LD_PRELOAD, but this PR adds no injection: placement is left to the webhook.For QA
Both binaries build without warnings (
-Wall -Wextra -Werror) on amd64 and arm64.Dockerfile.basebuilds for both architectures.Validated on this branch with vLLM 0.20.0 at default flags:
GPU tests (
tests/gpushare/) pass on GB300 (arm64, driver 610.57.04) and on RTX PRO 6000 (x86, driver 580).test_multi_gpuis new. The previous shim faulted on its first peer write.test_ipc_releaseandtest_cumem_releaseprobe the driver without the shim.Qwen2.5-7B, TP=4, in place on GB300: 3 out of 3 suspend/resume cycles passed with identical output. Suspend took about 6.5 s, resume about 5.9 s.
Qwen2.5-72B, TP=4, on GB300, checkpointed on one node and restored on another, with the store on a PVC and the cache on local NVMe:
The base image
nvsnap-agent-base:v0.0.23is published for amd64 and arm64. Its binaries passed the TP=2 cycle test on GB300 (see the comment below).Issues
Relates to #2299
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