Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] livepatch: add support on arm64

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri May 29 2015 - 07:52:46 EST


On Thu, 28 May 2015, Li Bin wrote:

> This patchset propose a method for gcc -mfentry feature(profile
> before prologue) implementation for arm64, and propose the livepatch
> implementation for arm64 based on this feature.
> The gcc implementation about this feature will be post to the gcc
> community soon.
>
> With this -mfentry feature, the entry of each function like:
>
> foo:
> mov x9, x30
> bl __fentry__
> mov x30, x9
> [prologue]
> ...

Thanks a lot for working on arm64 support. I am putting this patchset on
hold before gcc support is merged. Once that happens, and once the arm64
parts are Acked by the arch maintainers, we could proceed with this patch.

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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