[PATCH v2 0/1] liveupdate: Add internal APIs for file preservation
Samiullah Khawaja <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:29:11 +0000
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Live update orchestrator file handlers depend on the preservation of other files. To make sure that the dependency is preserved, the file handlers needs to fetch the preservation token of the preserved dependency. Similarly during restore, a file handler wants to fetch the restored file of the dependency. There are two known usecases of this, - VFIO-Cdev preservation requires the preservation of iommufd. This is required by the IOMMU preservation series: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ - guest_memfd preservation requires the preservation of kvmfd. This is required by the guest_memfd preservation series: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20ae20f9d1a198b289444ebb4c824314cbba1bcf.1780676742.git.tarunsahu@google.com/ This patch was being sent as part of the IOMMU preservation series, but now it is being sent separately. Note that LUO File Handlers may resolve the dependencies during preserve() as freeze() is very late and past the point of no return. Also FH might have preservation requirements on dependencies due to immutability, security and performance reasons. v2: - rebased on liveupdate/next to resolve conflicts - Added a note about resolution of dependencies based on offline discussion with Pasha and David. Pasha Tatashin (1): liveupdate: luo_file: Add internal APIs for file preservation include/linux/liveupdate.h | 22 ++++++++++ kernel/liveupdate/luo_file.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h | 17 ++++++++ 3 files changed, 108 insertions(+) base-commit: cecfb90c5f2cc0622b363c2291b69d6cad272897 -- 2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog