Re: [PATCH] kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled
From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Dec 19 2018 - 11:58:59 EST
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> This option only makes sense for source-based patch generation, so isn't
> it a bit premature to make this change without proper source-based patch
> tooling?
The reality is though that before the full-fledged patch tooling exists,
people are actually already writing livepatches by hand, so this option is
useful for them.
> Also the commit message needs an analysis of the performance impacts.
Agreed. Especially as it's expected (*) to be completely in the noise
particularly for the kernel, it'd be good to have that documented in the
changelog.
(*) actually measured already for some subset of the IPA optimizations
Thanks,
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs