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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:56:06 -0500
From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/22] liveupdate: luo_core: luo_ioctl: Live Update Orchestrator

> > +/**
> > + * DOC: General ioctl format
> > + *
>
> It seems it's not linked from Documentation/.../liveupdate.rst

It is linked:
Here is uAPI: https://docs.kernel.org/next/userspace-api/liveupdate.html

And also from the main Doc:
https://docs.kernel.org/next/core-api/liveupdate.html
There is a link in "Sea Also" section: Live Update uAPI

> > + * The ioctl interface follows a general format to allow for extensibility. Each
> > + * ioctl is passed in a structure pointer as the argument providing the size of
> > + * the structure in the first u32. The kernel checks that any structure space
> > + * beyond what it understands is 0. This allows userspace to use the backward
> > + * compatible portion while consistently using the newer, larger, structures.
> > + *
> > + * ioctls use a standard meaning for common errnos:
> > + *
> > + *  - ENOTTY: The IOCTL number itself is not supported at all
> > + *  - E2BIG: The IOCTL number is supported, but the provided structure has
> > + *    non-zero in a part the kernel does not understand.
> > + *  - EOPNOTSUPP: The IOCTL number is supported, and the structure is
> > + *    understood, however a known field has a value the kernel does not
> > + *    understand or support.
> > + *  - EINVAL: Everything about the IOCTL was understood, but a field is not
> > + *    correct.
> > + *  - ENOENT: A provided token does not exist.
> > + *  - ENOMEM: Out of memory.
> > + *  - EOVERFLOW: Mathematics overflowed.
> > + *
> > + * As well as additional errnos, within specific ioctls.
>
> ...
>
> > --- a/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
> > +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
> > @@ -1,7 +1,34 @@
> >  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > +#
> > +# Copyright (c) 2025, Google LLC.
> > +# Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
> > +#
> > +# Live Update Orchestrator
> > +#
> >
> >  menu "Live Update and Kexec HandOver"
> >
> > +config LIVEUPDATE
> > +     bool "Live Update Orchestrator"
> > +     depends on KEXEC_HANDOVER
> > +     help
> > +       Enable the Live Update Orchestrator. Live Update is a mechanism,
> > +       typically based on kexec, that allows the kernel to be updated
> > +       while keeping selected devices operational across the transition.
> > +       These devices are intended to be reclaimed by the new kernel and
> > +       re-attached to their original workload without requiring a device
> > +       reset.
> > +
> > +       Ability to handover a device from current to the next kernel depends
> > +       on specific support within device drivers and related kernel
> > +       subsystems.
> > +
> > +       This feature primarily targets virtual machine hosts to quickly update
> > +       the kernel hypervisor with minimal disruption to the running virtual
> > +       machines.
> > +
> > +       If unsure, say N.
> > +
>
> Not a big deal, but since LIVEUPDATE depends on KEXEC_HANDOVER, shouldn't
> it go after KEXEC_HANDOVER?

Sure, I'll move them to the end of the file.

Thanks,
Pasha