Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Apr 01 2016 - 11:01:03 EST


On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Jessica Yu wrote:

> This patchset removes livepatch's need for architecture-specific relocation
> code by leveraging existing code in the module loader to perform
> arch-dependent work.

This is now in livepatching.git#for-4.7/arch-independent-klp-relocations

I was waiting a bit whether there would be any discussion regarding the
new relocation flag and symbol section index added to elf, but given the
fact that noone objected and that we are using the OS-specific range
anyway, I don't expect this to be an issue.

Thanks everybody,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs