Live Patching SIG

The purpose of the Live Patching SIG is to buld the concensus based implementation of application/kernel live patching.
Live Patching is the way to fix/patch the running software without restarting software, and this technique is essential for high available/mission critical service systems such as telecommunication system.

Most of the discussion takes place on the Live Patching mailing list.

Mailing list address: live_patching@lists.osdl.org

This web site is very new and will be actively updated with information as the project develops.

Conference Calls

Live Patching SIG Chairman: Takashi Ikebe [ikebe.takashi(at)lab.ntt.co.jp]
Site Editor: Ibrahim Haddad [ibrahim(at)osdl.org]

Meeting times: TBD

Call info:
Tollfree: 1-800-211-0633
Toll - 1-719-867-0485
Passcode: 940862
This call is moderated, so you may be on hold until the moderator joins.

Topics

Application live patching
- Define requirement
  - Define/discuss what can live patching do and what can not, desired performance, real-time capability.
- Evaluate existing implementations.
  - Measurement performance, real-time capability.
- Merge/modify existing implementation.
  - Define/discuss design and implement experimental code.
Kernel live patching
- Define requirement
  - Define/discuss what can live patching do and what can not, desired performance, real-time capability.
- Evaluate existing implementations.
  - Measurement performance and real-time capability.
- Merge/modify existing implementation.
  - Define/discuss design and implement experimental codes.