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[PATCH 0/3] Livepatch module notifier cleanup

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These are the remaining 3 patches that came from the original ftrace/livepatch
module notifier patchset found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/1180

Basically, the patchset does a bit of module.c cleanup (patch 1 and 2) in
preparation for the klp_module_{coming,going} calls (patch 3). We decided
to stop relying on the module notifier callchain in favor of hard-coding
the appropriate livepatch function calls that handle coming and going
modules. Hard-coding these calls will guarantee that ftrace and livepatch
exit/initialization routines are called in the correct order without
relying on module notifiers.

The patches should be nearly exactly the same as those from the previous
discussion, except in patch 3 I've added back the #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LIVEPATCH)
guard in livepatch.h, and in patch 2 I decided that it might be safer to
change mod->state with the module mutex held.

Patches based on linux-next.

Previous discussion found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/1180

Jessica Yu (3):
  modules: split part of complete_formation() into prepare_coming_module()
  modules: set mod->state to GOING before going notifiers are called
  livepatch/module: remove livepatch module notifier

 include/linux/livepatch.h |  13 +++++
 kernel/livepatch/core.c   | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 kernel/module.c           |  39 ++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)

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[PATCH 0/3] Livepatch module notifier cleanup Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> - 2016-03-09 23:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] Livepatch module notifier cleanup Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> - 2016-03-10 04:30 +0100

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