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authorPasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>2025-12-30 11:14:02 -0500
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-01-26 19:07:10 -0800
commit998be0a4dbcaa796a05c7b52327f3a09c29d3662 (patch)
treef70609f0500210049402d1745315c6b8173cd3e0
parent1921044eebf1d6861a6de1a76e3f63729a45e712 (diff)
liveupdate: separate memfd support into LIVEUPDATE_MEMFD
Decouple memfd preservation support from the core Live Update Orchestrator configuration. Previously, enabling CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE forced a dependency on CONFIG_SHMEM and unconditionally compiled memfd_luo.o. However, Live Update may be used for purposes that do not require memfd-backed memory preservation. Introduce CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE_MEMFD to gate memfd_luo.o. This moves the SHMEM and MEMFD_CREATE dependencies to the specific feature that needs them, allowing the base LIVEUPDATE option to be selected independently of shared memory support. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251230161402.1542099-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig17
-rw-r--r--mm/Makefile2
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig b/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
index d2aeaf13c3ac..1a8513f16ef7 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ config KEXEC_HANDOVER_ENABLE_DEFAULT
config LIVEUPDATE
bool "Live Update Orchestrator"
depends on KEXEC_HANDOVER
- depends on SHMEM
help
Enable the Live Update Orchestrator. Live Update is a mechanism,
typically based on kexec, that allows the kernel to be updated
@@ -73,4 +72,20 @@ config LIVEUPDATE
If unsure, say N.
+config LIVEUPDATE_MEMFD
+ bool "Live update support for memfd"
+ depends on LIVEUPDATE
+ depends on MEMFD_CREATE
+ depends on SHMEM
+ default LIVEUPDATE
+ help
+ Enable live update support for memfd regions. This allows preserving
+ memfd-backed memory across kernel live updates.
+
+ This can be used to back VM memory with memfds, allowing the guest
+ memory to persist, or for other user workloads needing to preserve
+ pages.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
endmenu
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 2d0570a16e5b..e38fcfbb805c 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA) += memory-tiers.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DEVICE_MIGRATION) += migrate_device.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) += huge_memory.o khugepaged.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_COUNTER) += page_counter.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE) += memfd_luo.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE_MEMFD) += memfd_luo.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MEMCG_V1) += memcontrol-v1.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MEMCG) += memcontrol.o vmpressure.o
ifdef CONFIG_SWAP