live patching · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• M Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
• M Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• R Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch
• F Documentation/livepatch/
• F arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h
• F include/linux/livepatch*.h
• F kernel/livepatch/
• F kernel/module/livepatch.c
• F samples/livepatch/
• F scripts/livepatch/
• F tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 00/28] objtool: dynamically detect noreturns
  2026-09-21 22:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

Recent patches

Most-recent 18 patches in this subsystem on rust-for-linux, ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 23/28] kbuild: Do the per-module objtool pass right before linking
  2026-09-21 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 00/28] objtool: dynamically detect noreturns
  2026-09-21 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 23/27] kbuild: Do the per-module objtool pass right before linking
  2026-09-08 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• COLD24d [PATCH 23/27] kbuild: Do the per-module objtool pass right before linking
  2026-08-28 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• STALE294d `KSYM_NAME_LEN` strikes again
  2025-12-01 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1075d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v10 05/27] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-09-27 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1449d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v9 05/27] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-08-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1476d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v8 05/31] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-08-02 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1528d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v7 03/25] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-05-23 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1593d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v6 03/23] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-05-07 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v2 3/3] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-05-06 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1599d [PATCH v1 3/3] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-05-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1635d [PATCH v5 02/20] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-03-17 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1648d [PATCH v4 02/20] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-02-12 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1706d [PATCH v3 02/19] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-01-17 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1708d [PATCH 02/19] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2021-12-06 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1886d [PATCH 02/17] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2021-07-04 · ojeda@kernel.org
• STALE1436d [PATCH 02/13] kallsyms: Increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2021-04-14 · ojeda@kernel.org