Re: live kernel upgrades (was: live kernel patching design)

[Pavel Machek]

> kernel update as step one, maybe we want this on a kernel module
> level:
> Hot-swap of kernel modules, where a kernel module makes itself go
> quiet and serializes its state ("suspend" pretty much), then gets
> swapped out (hot) by its replacement,
> which then unserializes the state and continues.

Hmm. So Linux 5.0 will be micro-kernel? :-).

							Pavek
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