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)
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Garry T. Williams