Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

From	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc
Date	2016-04-15 14:30 +0200
Message-ID	<rob2O-2XS-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	(1 earlier) <rnsIq-1Gg-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <rnt1N-1O6-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <rnJpU-61B-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <rnP2j-1K8-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <rnQB5-33W-41@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 16:34 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> > > > > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the exception that
> > > > > > I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only patch.
> > 
> > Confirmed. And it still works on top of 4.6-rc3, even with the 
> > additional testing.
> 
> Thanks a lot for testing.
> 
> The imporant part here is testing on top of 
> livepatching.git#for-4.7/arch-independent-klp-relocations as well.
> 
> I am pretty sure there will be adjustments needed for the merge, as we'll 
> have to figure out which parts of ELF can't be thrown away and need to be 
> preserved in order for the relocation entry to be successfully 
> constructed.
> 
> Michael, I think this is an additional reason why the whole final pile 
> will have to go through livepatching.git, as the merge with what we have 
> in for-4.7/arch-independent-klp-relocations might not be completely 
> trivial.

Well it will go through both :)

I'll merge it into powerpc#next, and you can merge it into livepatching and do
what ever else is needed as part of, or after, that merge.

cheers

Thread

[PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-13 15:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch header Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-13 15:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch header Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> - 2016-04-14 14:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch header Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> - 2016-04-14 14:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch header Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-14 15:20 +0200
    Re: [3/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch header Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-19 12:20 +0200
  [PATCH 1/5] ftrace: Make ftrace_location_range() global Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-13 15:00 +0200
    Re: [1/5] ftrace: Make ftrace_location_range() global Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-19 12:20 +0200
  [PATCH 4/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch stack to struct thread_info Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-13 15:00 +0200
    Re: [4/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch stack to struct thread_info Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-19 12:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> - 2016-04-13 15:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-04-13 15:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-14 09:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de> - 2016-04-14 15:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-14 15:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de> - 2016-04-14 17:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-14 18:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-15 13:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-15 15:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-04-14 16:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-15 14:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-04-15 17:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2016-04-19 23:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-04-20 00:00 +0200
    Re: Live patching for powerpc Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> - 2016-04-13 20:30 +0200
      Re: Live patching for powerpc Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> - 2016-04-14 15:30 +0200
        Re: Live patching for powerpc Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> - 2016-04-14 21:30 +0200
          Re: Live patching for powerpc Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> - 2016-04-15 10:30 +0200
            Re: Live patching for powerpc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-15 12:10 +0200

csiph-web