On Saturday, September 26, 2020 4:47:10 PM EDT Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 18:31 +0000, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote:
This is exactly a selling item for SLES. Reloading the kernel without rebooting.
A reference would be useful.
https://lwn.net/Articles/775264/ leads to this reference, https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Live_patching
Live patching Ksplice: kernel patches without reboots (April 29, 2008) Ksplice and kreplace (November 24, 2008) Followups: performance counters, ksplice, and fsnotify (December 17, 2008) The initial kGraft submission (April 30, 2014) The first kpatch submission (May 7, 2014) A rough patch for live patching (February 25, 2015) Compile-time stack validation (September 30, 2015) Topics in live kernel patching (November 14, 2016) Live patching for CPU vulnerabilities (December 20, 2018)