Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753179AbbBWLwt (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:52:49 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:43761 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752720AbbBWLwr (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:52:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:50:04 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Dave Airlie , Andrew Morton , Jiri Kosina , Ingo Molnar , Vojtech Pavlik , Josh Poimboeuf , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Seth Jennings , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov , live-patching@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: live kernel upgrades (was: live kernel patching design) Message-ID: <20150223115004.GB3206@Nokia-N900> References: <20150221194840.GA10126@gmail.com> <20150222084601.GA23491@gmail.com> <20150222094639.GA23684@gmail.com> <20150222104841.GA25335@gmail.com> <20150222150148.3c566837.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 608 Lines: 15 > kernel update as step one, maybe we want this on a kernel module > level: > Hot-swap of kernel modules, where a kernel module makes itself go > quiet and serializes its state ("suspend" pretty much), then gets > swapped out (hot) by its replacement, > which then unserializes the state and continues. Hmm. So Linux 5.0 will be micro-kernel? :-). Pavek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/