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Patching a running Linux kernel: kGraft v kpatch

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Sam Varghese
May 15, 2014

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 something that can be done on the fly.

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Sam Varghese

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