[PATCH v6 0/2] Make KHO Stateless

Jason Miu jasonmiu at google.com
Thu Jan 15 15:00:45 PST 2026


This series transitions KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system
with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed
directly to the next kernel.

The key motivations for this change are to:
- Eliminate the need for data serialization before kexec.
- Remove the KHO finalize state.
- Pass preservation metadata more directly to the next kernel via the FDT.

The new approach uses a radix tree to mark preserved pages. A page's
physical address and its order are encoded into a single value. The tree
is composed of multiple levels of page-sized tables, with leaf nodes
being bitmaps where each set bit represents a preserved page. The
physical address of the radix tree's root is passed in the FDT, allowing
the next kernel to reconstruct the preserved memory map.

This series is broken down into the following patches:

1.  kho: Adopt radix tree for preserved memory tracking:    
    Replaces the xarray-based tracker with the new radix tree
    implementation and increments the ABI version.

2.  kho: Remove finalize state and clients:
    Removes the now-obsolete kho_finalize() function and its usage
    from client code and debugfs.

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Changelog since v5 [1]:
- Cleaned up header inclusions
- Rebased to the latest linux-next

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260113053524.84186-1-jasonmiu@google.com/

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Jason Miu (2):
  kho: Adopt radix tree for preserved memory tracking
  kho: Remove finalize state and clients

 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/kho.rst        |  53 +-
 Documentation/core-api/kho/abi.rst          |   6 +
 Documentation/core-api/kho/index.rst        |  18 +-
 include/linux/kho/abi/kexec_handover.h      | 144 ++++-
 include/linux/kho_radix_tree.h              |  70 ++
 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c          | 682 ++++++++++----------
 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_debugfs.c  |  23 -
 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_internal.h |   3 -
 kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c                |  12 +-
 kernel/liveupdate/luo_flb.c                 |   2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/kho/init.c          |  20 -
 11 files changed, 560 insertions(+), 473 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/kho_radix_tree.h


base-commit: 9b7977f9e39b7768c70c2aa497f04e7569fd3e00
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2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog




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