[Hypervisor Live Update] Notes from April 21, 2025

Dave Hansen dave.hansen at intel.com
Mon Apr 28 17:35:07 PDT 2025


On 4/27/25 23:20, David Rientjes wrote:
> KHO v6 is now staged in Andrew's mm-new tree.  We discussed what it will
> take for this series to be pushed to Linus, specifically around
> Reviewed-by tags.  There is not a ton of x86 specific code, but it would
> likely be useful to have Reviewed-bys from some x86 maintainers.  Dave
> Hansen, would you be the right person to take a look at this from an x86
> perspective?

It looks mostly OK.

The one worry is the scratch reservation sizing, how folks will get that
right, and the implications if they get it wrong. If it's undersized
because newer kernels need more space, what ends up happening? Is it
just an OOM during boot?



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