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Jason Miu 5e1ea1e27b kho: introduce KHO FDT ABI header
Introduce the `include/linux/kho/abi/kexec_handover.h` header file, which
defines the stable ABI for the KHO mechanism.  This header specifies how
preserved data is passed between kernels using an FDT.

The ABI contract includes the FDT structure, node properties, and the
"kho-v1" compatible string.  By centralizing these definitions, this
header serves as the foundational agreement for inter-kernel communication
of preserved states, ensuring forward compatibility and preventing
misinterpretation of data across kexec transitions.

Since the ABI definitions are now centralized in the header files, the
YAML files that previously described the FDT interfaces are redundant. 
These redundant files have therefore been removed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105165839.285270-5-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26 19:07:12 -08:00
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) a6f4e56828 kho: docs: combine concepts and FDT documentation
Currently index.rst in KHO documentation looks empty and sad as it only
contains links to "Kexec Handover Concepts" and "KHO FDT" chapters.

Inline contents of these chapters into index.rst to provide a single
coherent chapter describing KHO.

While on it, drop parts of the KHO FDT description that will be superseded
by addition of KHO ABI documentation.

[rppt@kernel.org: fix Documentation/core-api/kho/index.rst]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aV4bnHlBXGpT_FMc@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105165839.285270-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26 19:07:11 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 998be0a4db liveupdate: separate memfd support into LIVEUPDATE_MEMFD
Decouple memfd preservation support from the core Live Update Orchestrator
configuration.

Previously, enabling CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE forced a dependency on CONFIG_SHMEM
and unconditionally compiled memfd_luo.o.  However, Live Update may be
used for purposes that do not require memfd-backed memory preservation.

Introduce CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE_MEMFD to gate memfd_luo.o.  This moves the
SHMEM and MEMFD_CREATE dependencies to the specific feature that needs
them, allowing the base LIVEUPDATE option to be selected independently of
shared memory support.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251230161402.1542099-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26 19:07:10 -08:00
Andrew Morton 412a32f0e5 kho: kho_preserve_vmalloc(): don't return 0 when ENOMEM
kho_preserve_vmalloc() should return -ENOMEM when new_vmalloc_chunk()
fails.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202601211636.IRaejjdw-lkp@intel.com/
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26 19:03:48 -08:00
Ran Xiaokai e86436ad0a kho: init alloc tags when restoring pages from reserved memory
Memblock pages (including reserved memory) should have their allocation
tags initialized to CODETAG_EMPTY via clear_page_tag_ref() before being
released to the page allocator.  When kho restores pages through
kho_restore_page(), missing this call causes mismatched
allocation/deallocation tracking and below warning message:

alloc_tag was not set
WARNING: include/linux/alloc_tag.h:164 at ___free_pages+0xb8/0x260, CPU#1: swapper/0/1
RIP: 0010:___free_pages+0xb8/0x260
 kho_restore_vmalloc+0x187/0x2e0
 kho_test_init+0x3c4/0xa30
 do_one_initcall+0x62/0x2b0
 kernel_init_freeable+0x25b/0x480
 kernel_init+0x1a/0x1c0
 ret_from_fork+0x2d1/0x360

Add missing clear_page_tag_ref() annotation in kho_restore_page() to
fix this.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260122132740.176468-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com
Fixes: fc33e4b44b ("kexec: enable KHO support for memory preservation")
Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26 19:03:47 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 582f0f3864 kho: validate preserved memory map during population
If the previous kernel enabled KHO but did not call kho_finalize() (e.g.,
CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE=n or userspace skipped the finalization step), the
'preserved-memory-map' property in the FDT remains empty/zero.

Previously, kho_populate() would succeed regardless of the memory map's
state, reserving the incoming scratch regions in memblock.  However,
kho_memory_init() would later fail to deserialize the empty map.  By that
time, the scratch regions were already registered, leading to partial
initialization and subsequent list corruption (freeing scratch area twice)
during kho_init().

Move the validation of the preserved memory map earlier into
kho_populate(). If the memory map is empty/NULL:
1. Abort kho_populate() immediately with -ENOENT.
2. Do not register or reserve the incoming scratch memory, allowing the new
   kernel to reclaim those pages as standard free memory.
3. Leave the global 'kho_in' state uninitialized.

Consequently, kho_memory_init() sees no active KHO context
(kho_in.mem_chunks_phys is 0) and falls back to kho_reserve_scratch(),
allocating fresh scratch memory as if it were a standard cold boot.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251223140140.2090337-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Fixes: de51999e68 ("kho: allow memory preservation state updates after finalization")
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reported-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251218215613.GA17304@ranerica-svr.sc.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-14 22:16:21 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann 601cc399a0 mm: memfd_luo: add CONFIG_SHMEM dependency
The new memfd code fails to link without SHMEM:

aarch64-linux-ld: mm/memfd_luo.o: in function `memfd_luo_retrieve_folios':
memfd_luo.c:(.text.memfd_luo_retrieve_folios+0xdc): undefined reference to `shmem_add_to_page_cache'
memfd_luo.c:(.text.memfd_luo_retrieve_folios+0x11c): undefined reference to `shmem_inode_acct_blocks'
memfd_luo.c:(.text.memfd_luo_retrieve_folios+0x134): undefined reference to `shmem_recalc_inode'

Add a Kconfig dependency to disallow that configuration.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251204100203.1034394-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: b3749f174d ("mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-12-10 16:07:44 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin bf2c7bf5c4 liveupdate: luo_core: fix redundant bound check in luo_ioctl()
The kernel test robot reported a Smatch warning:
kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c:402 luo_ioctl() warn: unsigned 'nr' is
never less than zero.

This occurs because 'nr' is unsigned and LIVEUPDATE_CMD_BASE is currently
defined as 0, making the check (nr < LIVEUPDATE_CMD_BASE) always false.

Remove the explicit lower bound check.  The logic remains correct because
'nr' is unsigned; if nr is less than LIVEUPDATE_CMD_BASE, the expression
(nr - LIVEUPDATE_CMD_BASE) will wrap around to a large positive value. 
This will inevitably be larger than ARRAY_SIZE(luo_ioctl_ops) and be
caught by the upper bound check.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251130010919.1488230-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202511280300.6pvBmXUS-lkp@intel.com/
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-12-10 16:07:42 -08:00
Dan Carpenter b2135d1cb0 liveupdate: luo_file: don't use invalid list iterator
If we exit a list_for_each_entry() without hitting a break then the list
iterator points to an offset from the list_head.  It's a non-NULL but
invalid pointer and dereferencing it isn't allowed.

Introduce a new "found" variable to test instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aSlMc4SS09Re4_xn@stanley.mountain
Fixes: 3ee1d673194e ("liveupdate: luo_file: implement file systems callbacks")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202511280420.y9O4fyhX-lkp@intel.com/
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-12-10 16:07:41 -08:00
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 7b71205ae1 kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
When contiguous ranges of order-0 pages are restored, kho_restore_page()
calls prep_compound_page() with the first page in the range and order as
parameters and then kho_restore_pages() calls split_page() to make sure
all pages in the range are order-0.

However, since split_page() is not intended to split compound pages and
with VM_DEBUG enabled it will trigger a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE().

Update kho_restore_page() so that it will use prep_compound_page() when it
restores a folio and make sure it properly sets page count for both large
folios and ranges of order-0 pages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125110917.843744-3-rppt@kernel.org
Fixes: a667300bd5 ("kho: add support for preserving vmalloc allocations")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:44 -08:00
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 4bc84cd539 kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
Patch series "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration".

Pratyush reported off-list that when kho_restore_vmalloc() is used to
restore a vmalloc_huge() allocation it hits VM_BUG_ON() when we
reconstruct the struct pages in kho_restore_pages().

These patches fix the issue.


This patch (of 2):

In case a preserved vmalloc allocation was using huge pages, all pages in
the array of pages added to vm_struct during kho_restore_vmalloc() are
wrongly set to the same page.

Fix the indexing when assigning pages to that array.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125110917.843744-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125110917.843744-2-rppt@kernel.org
Fixes: a667300bd5 ("kho: add support for preserving vmalloc allocations")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:44 -08:00
Ran Xiaokai 40cd0e8dd2 KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
When booting with debug_pagealloc=on while having:
CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=n
the system fails to boot due to page faults during kmemleak scanning.

This occurs because:
With debug_pagealloc is enabled, __free_pages() invokes
debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages(), clearing the _PAGE_PRESENT bit for freed
pages in the kernel page table.  KHO scratch areas are allocated from
memblock and noted by kmemleak.  But these areas don't remain reserved but
released later to the page allocator using init_cma_reserved_pageblock(). 
This causes subsequent kmemleak scans access non-PRESENT pages, leading to
fatal page faults.

Mark scratch areas with kmemleak_ignore_phys() after they are allocated
from memblock to exclude them from kmemleak scanning before they are
released to buddy allocator to fix this.

[ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn: add comment]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251127122700.103927-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251122182929.92634-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com
Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:43 -08:00
Pratyush Yadav b15515155a kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
Before commit fa759cd75b ("kho: allocate metadata directly from the
buddy allocator"), the chunks were allocated from the slab allocator using
kzalloc().  Those were rightly freed using kfree().

When the commit switched to using the buddy allocator directly, it missed
updating kho_mem_ser_free() to use free_page() instead of kfree().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251118182218.63044-1-pratyush@kernel.org
Fixes: fa759cd75b ("kho: allocate metadata directly from the buddy allocator")
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:42 -08:00
Pratyush Yadav 8def18633e liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state
Currently file handlers only get the serialized_data field to store their
state.  This field has a pointer to the serialized state of the file, and
it becomes a part of LUO file's serialized state.

File handlers can also need some runtime state to track information that
shouldn't make it in the serialized data.

One such example is a vmalloc pointer.  While kho_preserve_vmalloc()
preserves the memory backing a vmalloc allocation, it does not store the
original vmap pointer, since that has no use being passed to the next
kernel.  The pointer is needed to free the memory in case the file is
unpreserved.

Provide a private field in struct luo_file and pass it to all the
callbacks.  The field's can be set by preserve, and must be freed by
unpreserve.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-14-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Co-developed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:40 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 16cec0d265 liveupdate: luo_session: add ioctls for file preservation
Introducing the userspace interface and internal logic required to manage
the lifecycle of file descriptors within a session.  Previously, a session
was merely a container; this change makes it a functional management unit.

The following capabilities are added:

A new set of ioctl commands are added, which operate on the file
descriptor returned by CREATE_SESSION. This allows userspace to:
- LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_PRESERVE_FD: Add a file descriptor to a session
  to be preserved across the live update.
- LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_RETRIEVE_FD: Retrieve a preserved file in the
  new kernel using its unique token.
- LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_FINISH: finish session

The session's .release handler is enhanced to be state-aware.  When a
session's file descriptor is closed, it correctly unpreserves the session
based on its current state before freeing all associated file resources.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-8-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:39 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 7c722a7f44 liveupdate: luo_file: implement file systems callbacks
This patch implements the core mechanism for managing preserved files
throughout the live update lifecycle.  It provides the logic to invoke the
file handler callbacks (preserve, unpreserve, freeze, unfreeze, retrieve,
and finish) at the appropriate stages.

During the reboot phase, luo_file_freeze() serializes the final metadata
for each file (handler compatible string, token, and data handle) into a
memory region preserved by KHO.  In the new kernel, luo_file_deserialize()
reconstructs the in-memory file list from this data, preparing the session
for retrieval.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-7-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:38 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 81cd25d263 liveupdate: luo_core: add user interface
Introduce the user-space interface for the Live Update Orchestrator via
ioctl commands, enabling external control over the live update process and
management of preserved resources.

The idea is that there is going to be a single userspace agent driving the
live update, therefore, only a single process can ever hold this device
opened at a time.

The following ioctl commands are introduced:

LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION
Provides a way for userspace to create a named session for grouping file
descriptors that need to be preserved. It returns a new file descriptor
representing the session.

LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_RETRIEVE_SESSION
Allows the userspace agent in the new kernel to reclaim a preserved
session by its name, receiving a new file descriptor to manage the
restored resources.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-6-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:38 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 0153094d03 liveupdate: luo_session: add sessions support
Introduce concept of "Live Update Sessions" within the LUO framework.  LUO
sessions provide a mechanism to group and manage `struct file *` instances
(representing file descriptors) that need to be preserved across a
kexec-based live update.

Each session is identified by a unique name and acts as a container for
file objects whose state is critical to a userspace workload, such as a
virtual machine or a high-performance database, aiming to maintain their
functionality across a kernel transition.

This groundwork establishes the framework for preserving file-backed state
across kernel updates, with the actual file data preservation mechanisms
to be implemented in subsequent patches.

[dan.carpenter@linaro.org: fix use after free in luo_session_deserialize()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5dd637d7eed3a3be48c5e9fedb881596a3b1f5a.1764163896.git.dan.carpenter@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-5-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:38 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 1aece82100 liveupdate: luo_core: integrate with KHO
Integrate the LUO with the KHO framework to enable passing LUO state
across a kexec reboot.

This patch implements the lifecycle integration with KHO:

1. Incoming State: During early boot (`early_initcall`), LUO checks if
   KHO is active. If so, it retrieves the "LUO" subtree, verifies the
   "luo-v1" compatibility string, and reads the `liveupdate-number` to
   track the update count.

2. Outgoing State: During late initialization (`late_initcall`), LUO
   allocates a new FDT for the next kernel, populates it with the basic
   header (compatible string and incremented update number), and
   registers it with KHO (`kho_add_subtree`).

3. Finalization: The `liveupdate_reboot()` notifier is updated to invoke
   `kho_finalize()`. This ensures that all memory segments marked for
   preservation are properly serialized before the kexec jump.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:37 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 9e2fd062fa liveupdate: luo_core: Live Update Orchestrator
Patch series "Live Update Orchestrator", v8.

This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem
designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot. 
This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors
to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines.  LUO
achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as
memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.

As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file
descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or
any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec
reboot.

The other series that use LUO, are VFIO [1], IOMMU [2], and PCI [3]
preservations.

Github repo of this series [4].

The core of LUO is a framework for managing the lifecycle of preserved
resources through a userspace-driven interface. Key features include:

- Session Management
  Userspace agent (i.e. luod [5]) creates named sessions, each
  represented by a file descriptor (via centralized agent that controls
  /dev/liveupdate). The lifecycle of all preserved resources within a
  session is tied to this FD, ensuring automatic kernel cleanup if the
  controlling userspace agent crashes or exits unexpectedly.

- File Preservation
  A handler-based framework allows specific file types (demonstrated
  here with memfd) to be preserved. Handlers manage the serialization,
  restoration, and lifecycle of their specific file types.

- File-Lifecycle-Bound State
  A new mechanism for managing shared global state whose lifecycle is
  tied to the preservation of one or more files. This is crucial for
  subsystems like IOMMU or HugeTLB, where multiple file descriptors may
  depend on a single, shared underlying resource that must be preserved
  only once.

- KHO Integration
  LUO drives the Kexec Handover framework programmatically to pass its
  serialized metadata to the next kernel. The LUO state is finalized and
  added to the kexec image just before the reboot is triggered. In the
  future this step will also be removed once stateless KHO is
  merged [6].

- Userspace Interface
  Control is provided via ioctl commands on /dev/liveupdate for creating
  and retrieving sessions, as well as on session file descriptors for
  managing individual files.

- Testing
  The series includes a set of selftests, including userspace API
  validation, kexec-based lifecycle tests for various session and file
  scenarios, and a new in-kernel test module to validate the FLB logic.




Introduce LUO, a mechanism intended to facilitate kernel updates while
keeping designated devices operational across the transition (e.g., via
kexec).  The primary use case is updating hypervisors with minimal
disruption to running virtual machines.  For userspace side of hypervisor
update we have copyless migration.  LUO is for updating the kernel.

This initial patch lays the groundwork for the LUO subsystem.

Further functionality, including the implementation of state transition
logic, integration with KHO, and hooks for subsystems and file
descriptors, will be added in subsequent patches.

Create a character device at /dev/liveupdate.

A new uAPI header, <uapi/linux/liveupdate.h>, will define the necessary
structures.  The magic number for IOCTL is registered in
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251018000713.677779-1-vipinsh@google.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20250928190624.3735830-1-skhawaja@google.com [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20250916-luo-pci-v2-0-c494053c3c08@kernel.org [3]
Link: https://github.com/googleprodkernel/linux-liveupdate/tree/luo/v8 [4]
Link: https://tinyurl.com/luoddesign [5]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251020100306.2709352-1-jasonmiu@google.com [6]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251115233409.768044-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com [7]
Link: https://github.com/soleen/linux/blob/luo/v8b03/diff.v7.v8 [8]
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:37 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 7bd3643f94 kho: add Kconfig option to enable KHO by default
Currently, Kexec Handover must be explicitly enabled via the kernel
command line parameter `kho=on`.

For workloads that rely on KHO as a foundational requirement (such as the
upcoming Live Update Orchestrator), requiring an explicit boot parameter
adds redundant configuration steps.

Introduce CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_ENABLE_DEFAULT.  When selected, KHO
defaults to enabled.  This is equivalent to passing kho=on at boot.  The
behavior can still be disabled at runtime by passing kho=off.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114190002.3311679-14-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:37 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin de51999e68 kho: allow memory preservation state updates after finalization
Currently, kho_preserve_* and kho_unpreserve_* return -EBUSY if KHO is
finalized.  This enforces a rigid "freeze" on the KHO memory state.

With the introduction of re-entrant finalization, this restriction is no
longer necessary.  Users should be allowed to modify the preservation set
(e.g., adding new pages or freeing old ones) even after an initial
finalization.

The intended workflow for updates is now:
1. Modify state (preserve/unpreserve).
2. Call kho_finalize() again to refresh the serialized metadata.

Remove the kho_out.finalized checks to enable this dynamic behavior.

This also allows to convert kho_unpreserve_* functions to void, as they do
not return any error anymore.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114190002.3311679-13-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:36 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin d7255959b6 kho: allow kexec load before KHO finalization
Currently, kho_fill_kimage() checks kho_out.finalized and returns early if
KHO is not yet finalized.  This enforces a strict ordering where userspace
must finalize KHO *before* loading the kexec image.

This is restrictive, as standard workflows often involve loading the
target kernel early in the lifecycle and finalizing the state (FDT) only
immediately before the reboot.

Since the KHO FDT resides at a physical address allocated during boot
(kho_init), its location is stable.  We can attach this stable address to
the kimage regardless of whether the content has been finalized yet.

Relax the check to only require kho_enable, allowing kexec_file_load to
proceed at any time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114190002.3311679-12-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:36 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 8e068a286a kho: update FDT dynamically for subtree addition/removal
Currently, sub-FDTs were tracked in a list (kho_out.sub_fdts) and the
final FDT is constructed entirely from scratch during kho_finalize().

We can maintain the FDT dynamically:
1. Initialize a valid, empty FDT in kho_init().
2. Use fdt_add_subnode and fdt_setprop in kho_add_subtree to
   update the FDT immediately when a subsystem registers.
3. Use fdt_del_node in kho_remove_subtree to remove entries.

This removes the need for the intermediate sub_fdts list and the
reconstruction logic in kho_finalize().  kho_finalize() now only needs to
trigger memory map serialization.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114190002.3311679-11-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:36 -08:00
Pasha Tatashin 9a4301f715 kho: remove abort functionality and support state refresh
Previously, KHO required a dedicated kho_abort() function to clean up
state before kho_finalize() could be called again.  This was necessary to
handle complex unwind paths when using notifiers.

With the shift to direct memory preservation, the explicit abort step is
no longer strictly necessary.

Remove kho_abort() and refactor kho_finalize() to handle re-entry.  If
kho_finalize() is called while KHO is already finalized, it will now
automatically clean up the previous memory map and state before generating
a new one.  This allows the KHO state to be updated/refreshed simply by
triggering finalize again.

Update debugfs to return -EINVAL if userspace attempts to write 0 to the
finalize attribute, as explicit abort is no longer supported.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114190002.3311679-10-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:36 -08:00