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Lightweight Recovery from Kernel Failures Using Phase-based Reboot Lightweight Recovery from Kernel Failures Using Phase-based Reboot Kazuya, Yamakita Hiroshi, Yamada Kenji, Kono Kazuya, Yamakita Hiroshi, Yamada Kenji, Kono 仮想化 Although operating systems (OSes) are crucial to achieving high availability of computer systems, modern OSes are far from bug-free. Rebooting the OS is simple, powerful, and sometimes the only remedy for kernel failures. Once we accept reboot-based recovery as a fact of life, we should try to ensure that the downtime caused by reboots is as short as possible. This paper presents “phase-based” reboots that shorten the downtime caused by reboot-based recovery. The key idea is to divide a boot sequence into phases. The phase-based reboot reuses a system state in the previous boot if the next boot reproduces the same state. A prototype of the phase-based reboot was implemented on Xen 3.4.1 running para-virtualized Linux 2.6.18. Experiments with the prototype show that it successfully recovered from kernel transient failures inserted by a fault injector, and its downtime was 34.3% to 93.6% shorter than that of the normal reboot-based recovery. Although operating systems (OSes) are crucial to achieving high availability of computer systems, modern OSes are far from bug-free. Rebooting the OS is simple, powerful, and sometimes the only remedy for kernel failures. Once we accept reboot-based recovery as a fact of life, we should try to ensure that the downtime caused by reboots is as short as possible. This paper presents “phase-based” reboots that shorten the downtime caused by reboot-based recovery. The key idea is to divide a boot sequence into phases. The phase-based reboot reuses a system state in the previous boot if the next boot reproduces the same state. A prototype of the phase-based reboot was implemented on Xen 3.4.1 running para-virtualized Linux 2.6.18. Experiments with the prototype show that it successfully recovered from kernel transient failures inserted by a fault injector, and its downtime was 34.3% to 93.6% shorter than that of the normal reboot-based recovery. 情報処理学会 2012-03-22 eng journal article https://ipsj.ixsq.nii.ac.jp/records/81519 1882-7829 AA11833852 情報処理学会論文誌コンピューティングシステム（ACS） 5 2 121 132 https://ipsj.ixsq.nii.ac.jp/record/81519/files/IPSJ-TACS0502013.pdf application/pdf 811.6 kB 2014-03-22