Hi Sami, On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 01:25:19AM +0000, Samiullah Khawaja wrote: > Live update orchestrator file handlers depend on the preservation of > other files. To make sure that the dependency is preserved, the file > handlers needs to fetch the preservation token of the preserved > dependency. Similarly during restore, a file handler wants to fetch the > restored file of the dependency.
This will have to wait until -rc1 is out. I'm thinking about taking it to a branch in the liveupdate tree and keeping there until a patchset that uses it, be it iommu or kvm matures. > There are two known usecases of this, > > - VFIO-Cdev preservation requires the preservation of iommufd. This is > required by the IOMMU preservation series: > https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ > - guest_memfd preservation requires the preservation of kvmfd. This is > required by the guest_memfd preservation series: > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20ae20f9d1a198b289444ebb4c824314cbba1bcf.1780676742.git.taruns...@google.com/ -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
