On Sun, 2020-09-27 at 11:54 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote: > On Saturday, September 26, 2020 4:47:10 PM EDT Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 18:31 +0000, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: > > > This is exactly a selling item for SLES. > > > Reloading the kernel without rebooting. > > > > A reference would be useful. > > https://lwn.net/Articles/775264/ leads to this reference, > https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Live_patching > > Live patching > Ksplice: kernel patches without reboots (April 29, 2008) > Ksplice and kreplace (November 24, 2008) > Followups: performance counters, ksplice, and fsnotify (December 17, 2008) > The initial kGraft submission (April 30, 2014) > The first kpatch submission (May 7, 2014) > A rough patch for live patching (February 25, 2015) > Compile-time stack validation (September 30, 2015) > Topics in live kernel patching (November 14, 2016) > Live patching for CPU vulnerabilities (December 20, 2018)
All very interesting (really). However it's not exactly "reloading the kernel without rebooting", but being able to dynamically patch the code of selected kernel functions *without* changing data structures. It certainly has a use case but I don't think it's what the OP was looking for. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
