Re: [PATCH] livepatch: support for repatching a function

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Jan 19 2015 - 14:48:50 EST


On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> > If this is implemented really in a fully stackable manner (i.e. you
> > basically would be able to disable only the function that is currently
> > "active", i.e. on top of the stack), woudln't that provide more
> > predictable semantics?
>
> Yes, I agree. Thanks for the comment.
>
> Would you want to enforce stacking even if there are no dependencies
> between the patches? I think that would be easiest (and cleanest).

Yup, I think that makes the most sense (especially in this "first step").
Relaxing the revert rules to cover only patches which are really dependent
on each other (and we'd have to be careful about defining the meaning
this, especially with repsect to various consistency models coming in the
future) is something tha can always be done later on top.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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