On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 4:58 PM David Matlack <[email protected]> wrote: > > This series can be found on GitHub: > > https://github.com/dmatlack/linux/tree/liveupdate/vfio/cdev/v3 > > This series adds the base support to preserve a VFIO device file across > a Live Update. "Base support" means that this allows userspace to > safely preserve a VFIO device file with LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_PRESERVE_FD > and retrieve it with LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_RETRIEVE_FD, but the device > itself is not preserved in a fully running state across Live Update.
Apologies for the large number of people who got added to the CC list on this version of the patchset. The changes to Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt in patch 4 caused scripts/get_maintainer.pl to CC a number of additional people due to --git-fallback. I'll fix that in the next version.
