Re: live kernel upgrades (was: live kernel patching design)

[Jiri Kosina]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> Yes, there have been some suggestions that we should support multiple 
> consistency models, but I haven't heard any good reasons that would 
> justify the added complexity.

I tend to agree, consistency models were just a temporary idea that seems 
to likely become unnecessary given all the ideas on the unified solution 
that have been presented so far.

(Well, with a small exception to this -- I still think we should be able 
to "fire and forget" for patches where it's guaranteed that no 
housekeeping is necessary -- my favorite example is again fixing out of 
bounds access in a certain syscall entry ... i.e. the "super-simple" 
consistency model).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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