Re: [PATCH v2 07/22] vfio/pci: Notify PCI subsystem about devices preserved across Live Update

[Pasha Tatashin]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 8:25 AM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 08:33:27PM -0400, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
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> > If there are active sessions (incoming or outgoing) with preserved
> > data, how can we safely unregister while they are in-flight? It is a
> > rare condition, but since the user can cause it, they need to be
> > notified that unloading the module right now is not a good idea.
>
> IMHO blow up the kernel or something in the core code, you can't stop
> module unloading once it starts so it is pointless to propogate this

I see, I will send a separate LUO patches to make unregister functions
return void.

Pasha

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> Jason