linux.git/kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h, branch v7.2-rc2

liveupdate: Remove limit on the number of files per session

2026-06-03T18:15:46+00:00

To remove the fixed limit on the number of preserved files per session,
transition the file metadata serialization from a single contiguous
memory block to a chain of linked blocks.

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603154402.468928-11-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

liveupdate: defer session block allocation and physical address setting

2026-06-03T18:15:46+00:00

Currently, luo_session_setup_outgoing() allocates the session block and
sets its physical address in the header immediately. With upcoming
dynamic block-based session management, this makes the first block
different from the rest. Move the allocation to where it is first needed.

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603154402.468928-9-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

liveupdate: centralize state management into struct luo_ser

2026-06-03T18:15:45+00:00

Transition the LUO to ABI v2, which centralizes state management into a
single struct luo_ser header.

Previously, LUO state was spread across multiple FDT properties and
subnodes. ABI v2 simplifies this by placing all core state, including
the liveupdate number and physical addresses for sessions and FLB
headers into a centralized struct luo_ser.

Note that this change introduces a semantic difference: the sessions
and FLB serialization formats are no longer completely independent of
the core LUO. Their metadata (such as physical addresses for sessions
and FLB headers) is now coupled to and managed via the centralized
struct luo_ser.

Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) 
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603154402.468928-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

liveupdate: change file_set->count type to u64 for type safety

2026-06-03T18:15:45+00:00

This improves type safety and aligns the in-memory file_set->count with
the serialized count type. It avoids potential truncation or sign
conversion mismatch issues.

Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) 
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603154402.468928-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

liveupdate: Remove unused ser field from struct luo_session

2026-06-01T06:19:38+00:00

The ser field in struct luo_session was intended to point to the
serialized data for a session, but it was never actually utilized in the
implementation. All serialization and deserialization logic consistently
uses the pointers maintained in struct luo_session_header.

Remove the dead field to clean up the structure.

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260527202737.1345192-6-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

liveupdate: remove liveupdate_test_unregister()

2026-04-18T07:10:50+00:00

Now that file handler unregistration automatically unregisters all
associated file handlers (FLBs), the liveupdate_test_unregister() function
is no longer needed.  Remove it along with its usages and declarations.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327033335.696621-9-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) 
Cc: David Matlack 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

liveupdate: auto unregister FLBs on file handler unregistration

2026-04-18T07:10:50+00:00

To ensure that unregistration is always successful and doesn't leave
dangling resources, introduce auto-unregistration of FLBs: when a file
handler is unregistered, all FLBs associated with it are automatically
unregistered.

Introduce a new helper luo_flb_unregister_all() which unregisters all FLBs
linked to the given file handler.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327033335.696621-8-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) 
Cc: David Matlack 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

liveupdate: remove luo_session_quiesce()

2026-04-18T07:10:50+00:00

Now that FLB module references are handled dynamically during active
sessions, we can safely remove the luo_session_quiesce() and
luo_session_resume() mechanism.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327033335.696621-7-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) 
Cc: David Matlack 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

liveupdate: protect file handler list with rwsem

2026-04-18T07:10:49+00:00

Because liveupdate file handlers will no longer hold a module reference
when registered, we must ensure that the access to the handler list is
protected against concurrent module unloading.

Utilize the global luo_register_rwlock to protect the global registry of
file handlers.  Read locks are taken during list traversals in
luo_preserve_file() and luo_file_deserialize().  Write locks are taken
during registration and unregistration.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327033335.696621-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) 
Cc: David Matlack 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test

2026-02-08T08:13:33+00:00

Introduce an in-kernel test module to validate the core logic of the Live
Update Orchestrator's File-Lifecycle-Bound feature.  This provides a
low-level, controlled environment to test FLB registration and callback
invocation without requiring userspace interaction or actual kexec
reboots.

The test is enabled by the CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE_TEST Kconfig option.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218155752.3045808-6-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin 
Cc: Alexander Graf 
Cc: David Gow 
Cc: David Matlack 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Pratyush Yadav 
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja 
Cc: Tamir Duberstein 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton