Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching

[Seth Jennings]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:45:58AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 07:29:23PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> > +int lpc_write_module_reloc(struct module *mod, unsigned long type,
> > +			   unsigned long loc, unsigned long value)
> > +{
> > +	pr_err("Live patching not supported on 32-bit x86\n");
> > +	return -ENOSYS;
> > +}
> 
> Why not just prevent the code from being built on x86_32 instead of
> putting this in the file?

Yep. Masami saw this too and recommended a ARCH_HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING flag
set by the archs that support it.  I'll make the change.

Thanks for the review!

Seth

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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