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 15:30 +0200
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On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 07:59 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:22:49PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 11:41 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:20:29PM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:08:02PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 14:57 +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> > > > > > FTR: then I still have a few ppc64 hunks floating around to support certain consistency
> > > > > > models...
> > > > > 
> > > > > OK. I'm not quite sure what you mean but post them and we'll see I guess :)
> > > > 
> > > > It's *roughly* the ppc64 equivalent of Josh Poimboeuf's Mar 25
> > > > > [RFC PATCH v1.9 14/14] livepatch: update task universe when exiting kernel
> > > > which only considers x86.
> > > > 
> > > > It's forward ported from an earlier code base; there's some glue missing,
> > > > but here it is, for reference.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
> > > 
> > > Hi Torsten,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for sharing.  This is quite fortuitous as Miroslav just today
> > > mentioned to me that we would need something like this.  If you don't
> > > mind, I may pull this patch or some variant of it into v2 of the
> > > consistency model.
> >  
> > Well please wait for me to review & ack it before you pull it into anything
> > permanent.
> > 
> > At a quick glance it seems OK but I'd probably do it a little differently. I'll
> > try and have a closer look next week.
> 
> Sure, no problem.  The consistency model patches are still in
> development so they won't be merged anytime soon.  And we wouldn't merge
> any powerpc code without maintainer acks anyway.  I'm just glad you guys
> are looking at it so I don't have to butcher it ;-)

I'm paid to butcher it ;)

cheers

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[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

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