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The KHO framework uses a notifier chain as the mechanism for clients to participate in the finalization process. While this works for a single, central state machine, it is too restrictive for kernel-internal components like pstore/reserve_mem or IMA. These components need a simpler, direct way to register their state for preservation (e.g., during their initcall) without being part of a complex, shutdown-time notifier sequence. The notifier model forces all participants into a single finalization flow and makes direct preservation from an arbitrary context difficult. This patch refactors the client participation model by removing the notifier chain and introducing a direct API for managing FDT subtrees. The core kho_finalize() and kho_abort() state machine remains, but clients now register their data with KHO beforehand. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251101142325.1326536-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.