# kGraft: Live Kernel Patching

**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/kgraft-live-kernel-patching/25058
**Category:** SUSE News
**Created:** [January 31, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kgraft-live-kernel-patching/25058 "2014-01-31T17:52:45Z")
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### Author: ![InTheNews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/65b543/32.png) [@InTheNews](https://forums.suse.com/u/InTheNews)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kgraft-live-kernel-patching/25058/1 "2014-01-31T17:52:45Z")

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kGraft: Live Kernel Patching

It has many names – hot fixing, live patching, runtime patching, rebootless updates, concurrent updates.\* It’s a holy grail of uptime. It is longed for by scientists who really do not want to stop a simulation that has been running for the past few months – just because of a needed kernel stability fix.\* IT … [+read more](https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/kgraft-live-kernel-patching/)

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