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

Pasha Tatashin pasha.tatashin at soleen.com
Fri Mar 13 07:27:33 PDT 2026


On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 8:25 AM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 08:33:27PM -0400, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
>
> > 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

>
> Jason



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