[PATCH v1 3/7] liveupdate: Pass user argument to file preserve and retrieve

[Pratyush Yadav]

On Mon, Oct 19 2026, Pasha Tatashin wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM <tarunsahu at google.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> As Per Today's Hypervisor liveupdate meeting, This patch will be picked
>> by @dmatlack at google.com for latest tmpfs preservation series.
>>
>> I have a suggestion to make here.
>>
>> Let's send this patch as a saperate patch so that I can also use this in
>> my guest_memfd preservation work. This will help landing this feature
>> sooner and unblock other subsystem who needs it.
>>
>> Let me know what you think?
>
> Hi Tarun,
>
> You can include this patch the next time you send your guest_memfd
> patches. Whichever series lands first will pull in this change.
>
> We are trying not to merge new features without an actual user,
> especially ones as important as those changing the uapi. I think tmpfs
> preservation may actually make it easier to land, as it only changes
> the code that we maintain.

+1, let's use tmpfs preservation to land this change. It is a simple and
relatively small change compared to guest_memfd preservation.

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav