Hi, we would like to organize Live Patching Microconference at Linux Plumbers 2023. The conference will take place in Richmond, VA, USA. 13-15 November. https://lpc.events/. The call for proposals has been opened so it is time to start the preparation on our side. You can find the proposal below. Comments are welcome. The list of topics is open, so feel free to add more. I tried to add key people to discuss the topics, but the list is not exhaustive. I would like to submit the proposal soonish even though the deadline is on 1 June. I assume that we can update the topics later. My plan is to also organize a proper Call for Topics after the submission and advertise it also on LKML. Last but not least it would be nice to have a co-runner of the show. Josh, Joe, any volunteer? :) Thank you Miroslav Proposal -------- The Live Patching microconference at Linux Plumbers 2023 aims to gather stakeholders and interested parties to discuss proposed features and outstanding issues in live patching. Live patching is a critical tool for maintaining system uptime and security by enabling fixes to be applied to running systems without the need for a reboot. The development of the infrastructure is an ongoing effort and while many problems have been resolved and features implemented, there are still open questions, some with already submitted patch sets, which need to be discussed. Live Patching microconferences at the previous Linux Plumbers conferences proved to be useful in this regard and helped us to find final solutions or at least promising directions to push the development forward. It includes for example a support for several architectures (ppc64le and s390x were added after x86_64), a late module patching and module dependencies and user space live patching. Currently proposed topics follow. The list is open though and more will be added during the regular Call for Topics. - klp-convert (as means to fix CET IBT limitations) and its upstreamability - shadow variables, global state transition - kselftests and the future direction of development - arm64 live patching Key people - Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> - Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> - Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx> - Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> - Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxx> - Nicolai Stange <nstange@xxxxxxx> - Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@xxxxxxx> - Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> - Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> We encourage all attendees to actively participate in the microconference by sharing their ideas, experiences, and insights.
