With the attached kpatch, I didn't have hardware suitable to successfully load the aesni_intel driver. A modprobe of that driver did engage kpatch though, and that left the kpatch patch module loaded, ...

I have encountered an issue with kpatch where it experiences stalling or timeouts when performing load/unload operations on modules,。 To address this, I modified the method in kpatch that checks this ...

"kpatch emphasises what we feel is the most important part of the patching process: the pre-patch analysis. kpatch provides the functionality to provide a full deep dive into the code change, picking ...

Patching a Linux kernel without any downtime is likely to become a common practice over the next few years; two patches released earlier this year are likely to make what is a task requiring downtime ...