linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] kstate, test: add test module for testing kstate subsystem.

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Message-ID: <9f548efd-babf-45f2-99bb-e013c810ef72@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:00:12 +0200
From: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
 Andrey Ryabinin <arbn@...dex-team.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] kstate, test: add test module for testing kstate
 subsystem.

On 9/10/25 2:33 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/9/25 1:14 PM, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig b/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
>> index b6ea861006bf..af9a25bdcd6e 100644
>> --- a/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
>> +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
>> @@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ config KSTATE
>>  	  state, save it into the memory and restore the state after kexec
>>  	  in new kernel.
>>  
>> +config KSTATE_TEST
>> +	bool "KSTATE test code"
>> +	help
>> +	  Build a simple test/playground code that is useful for kstate
> 
> 	  Build simple
> 
>> +	  subsystem development. It contains some structure with different
> 
> 	                                          structures
> ?
> 
>> +	  kind of data which migrated across kexec to the new kernel
> 
> 	  kinds        which are migrated
> 
>> +	  using KSTATE.
>> +
> 

Thanks, Randy. I'll fix this up, and the documentation as well.