Changelog: v9: Added review-bys and addressed comments from Mike Rapoport and Pratyush Yadav. Dropped patch that moves abort/finalize to public header per Mike's request. Added patch from Zhu Yanjun to output errors by name.
This series appliyes against akpm's mm-unstable branch.
This series refactors the KHO framework to better support in-kernel users like the upcoming LUO. The current design, which relies on a notifier chain and debugfs for control, is too restrictive for direct programmatic use.
The core of this rework is the removal of the notifier chain in favor of a direct registration API. This decouples clients from the shutdown-time finalization sequence, allowing them to manage their preserved state more flexibly and at any time.
In support of this new model, this series also: - Makes the debugfs interface optional. - Introduces APIs to unpreserve memory and fixes a bug in the abort path where client state was being incorrectly discarded. Note that this is an interim step, as a more comprehensive fix is planned as part of the stateless KHO work [1]. - Moves all KHO code into a new kernel/liveupdate/ directory to consolidate live update components.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251020100306.2709352-1-jasonmiu@google.com
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (1): kho: drop notifiers
Pasha Tatashin (7): kho: make debugfs interface optional kho: add interfaces to unpreserve folios, page ranges, and vmalloc memblock: Unpreserve memory in case of error test_kho: Unpreserve memory in case of error kho: don't unpreserve memory during abort liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate MAINTAINERS: update KHO maintainers
Zhu Yanjun (1): liveupdate: kho: Use %pe format specifier for error pointer printing
Documentation/core-api/kho/concepts.rst | 2 +- MAINTAINERS | 4 +- include/linux/kexec_handover.h | 46 +- init/Kconfig | 2 + kernel/Kconfig.kexec | 24 - kernel/Makefile | 3 +- kernel/kexec_handover_internal.h | 16 - kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig | 39 ++ kernel/liveupdate/Makefile | 5 + kernel/{ => liveupdate}/kexec_handover.c | 532 +++++++----------- .../{ => liveupdate}/kexec_handover_debug.c | 0 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_debugfs.c | 221 ++++++++ kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_internal.h | 56 ++ lib/test_kho.c | 128 +++-- mm/memblock.c | 93 +-- tools/testing/selftests/kho/vmtest.sh | 1 + 16 files changed, 690 insertions(+), 482 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 kernel/kexec_handover_internal.h create mode 100644 kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig create mode 100644 kernel/liveupdate/Makefile rename kernel/{ => liveupdate}/kexec_handover.c (80%) rename kernel/{ => liveupdate}/kexec_handover_debug.c (100%) create mode 100644 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_debugfs.c create mode 100644 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_internal.h
base-commit: 9ef7b034116354ee75502d1849280a4d2ff98a7c