live update · Maintained

Maintainers

M Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
M Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
M Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>

Paths

F Documentation/core-api/liveupdate.rst
F Documentation/mm/memfd_preservation.rst
F Documentation/userspace-api/liveupdate.rst
F include/linux/kho/abi/
F include/linux/liveupdate.h
F include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h
F kernel/liveupdate/
F lib/tests/liveupdate.c
F mm/memfd_luo.c
F tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

WARM2d [PATCH v2 0/4] kho: rename "scratch" to "bootmem"
2026-09-08 15:57 · 4 replies in 7d · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
WARM3d [PATCH v5 0/5] LoongArch: add KHO support and selftests
2026-09-04 10:10 · 2 replies in 7d · George Guo <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

Kexin Liu <hidden>
1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-04

Recent patches

Most-recent 11 patches in this subsystem on linux-efi, ordered by date desc.

WARM2d [PATCH v2 4/4] kho: rename kho_scratch= commandline parameter to kho_bootmem=
2026-09-08 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
WARM2d [PATCH v2 3/4] kho: rename KHO scratch to KHO bootmem
2026-09-08 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
WARM2d [PATCH v2 2/4] memblock: rename KHO_SCRATCH to KHO_NOPRSRV
2026-09-08 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
WARM2d [PATCH v2 1/4] memblock: get rid of CONFIG_MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH
2026-09-08 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
WARM3d [PATCH v5 3/5] liveupdate: kho_block: include linux/mm.h for virt/phys translation
2026-09-04 · George Guo <hidden>
WARM3d [PATCH v5 2/5] liveupdate: synchronize EFI KHO channel at execution
2026-09-04 · George Guo <hidden>
COLD23d [PATCH 4/4] kho: rename kho_scratch= commandline parameter to kho_bootmem=
2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
COLD23d [PATCH 3/4] kho: rename KHO scratch to KHO bootmem
2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
COLD23d [PATCH 2/4] memblock: rename KHO_SCRATCH to KHO_NOPRSRV
2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
COLD23d [PATCH 1/4] memblock: get rid of CONFIG_MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH
2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
COOLING6d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v4 3/4] liveupdate: luo_session: include linux/mm.h for virt/phys translation
2026-08-07 · George Guo <hidden>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

COLD23d [PATCH 1/4] memblock: get rid of CONFIG_MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH
2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
COLD23d [PATCH 2/4] memblock: rename KHO_SCRATCH to KHO_NOPRSRV
2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
COLD23d [PATCH 3/4] kho: rename KHO scratch to KHO bootmem
2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
COLD23d [PATCH 4/4] kho: rename kho_scratch= commandline parameter to kho_bootmem=
2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>