kpatch 0.5.0
In addition to many bug fixes, this release has the following new features:
- Basic ppc64le support
kpatch
utility support for the livepatch consistency model:kpatch load
automatically signals stalled processes after a timeoutkpatch list
shows stalled processeskpatch signal
signals stalled processes
- kpatch-build has some new options:
- multiple source patches can be combined into a single binary patch module
-n|--name
option for giving a custom name to the patch module- additional
-d
options for more verbose debug modes
- The module prefix is now either
livepatch-
orkpatch-
depending on the underlying patching technology