Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc
From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Thu Apr 14 2016 - 02:49:58 EST
On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 15:22 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> > > This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM).
> > >
> > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the exception that
> > > I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only patch.
> > >
> > > If there's no further comments I'll put this in a topic branch in the next day
> > > or two and Jiri & I will both merge that into next.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'll definitely give it a proper look today or tomorrow, but there is one
> > thing that needs to be solved. The patch set from Jessica reworking
> > relocations for live patching is now merged in our for-next branch. This
> > means that we need to find out if there is something in struct
> > mod_arch_specific for powerpc which needs to be preserved and do it.
>
> Michael, if the plan is still the original one, i.e. you push it to your
> branch, and I merge it to livepatching (and resolve any dependencies on
> the relocations code during the merge) and push it to Linus from
> livepatching.git, then there shouldn't be anything do to on your side.
That is my plan yeah.
Topic branch here:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/log/?h=topic/livepatch
I will merge that before Monday (my time) if I don't hear any objections.
cheers