[PATCH v5 0/7] liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users

[Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>]

These patches are taken from the LUOv4 series [1] and address recent
comments from Pratyush.

This series refactors the KHO framework to better support in-kernel
users like the upcoming LUO. The current design, which relies on a
notifier chain and debugfs for control, is too restrictive for direct
programmatic use.

The core of this rework is the removal of the notifier chain in favor of
a direct registration API. This decouples clients from the shutdown-time
finalization sequence, allowing them to manage their preserved state
more flexibly and at any time.

In support of this new model, this series also:
 - Exports kho_finalize() and kho_abort() for programmatic control.
 - Makes the debugfs interface optional.
 - Introduces APIs to unpreserve memory and fixes a bug in the abort
   path where client state was being incorrectly discarded. Note that
   this is an interim step, as a more comprehensive fix is planned as
   part of the stateless KHO work [2].
 - Moves all KHO code into a new kernel/liveupdate/ directory to
   consolidate live update components.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250929010321.3462457-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251001011941.1513050-1-jasonmiu@google.com

Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (1):
  kho: drop notifiers

Pasha Tatashin (6):
  kho: allow to drive kho from within kernel
  kho: make debugfs interface optional
  kho: add interfaces to unpreserve folios and page ranes
  kho: don't unpreserve memory during abort
  liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate
  kho: move kho debugfs directory to liveupdate

 Documentation/core-api/kho/concepts.rst     |   2 +-
 MAINTAINERS                                 |   3 +-
 include/linux/kexec_handover.h              |  53 +-
 init/Kconfig                                |   2 +
 kernel/Kconfig.kexec                        |  15 -
 kernel/Makefile                             |   2 +-
 kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig                   |  30 ++
 kernel/liveupdate/Makefile                  |   4 +
 kernel/{ => liveupdate}/kexec_handover.c    | 515 ++++++++------------
 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_debug.c    | 216 ++++++++
 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_internal.h |  47 ++
 lib/test_kho.c                              |  30 +-
 mm/memblock.c                               |  60 +--
 tools/testing/selftests/kho/init.c          |   2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/kho/vmtest.sh       |   1 +
 15 files changed, 553 insertions(+), 429 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 kernel/liveupdate/Makefile
 rename kernel/{ => liveupdate}/kexec_handover.c (79%)
 create mode 100644 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_debug.c
 create mode 100644 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover_internal.h


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