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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 8/9] Implement kernel live patching for ppc64le (ABIv2)

[ added Petr to CC list ]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Torsten Duwe wrote:

> * create the appropriate files+functions
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h
> klp_check_compiler_support,
> klp_arch_set_pc
> arch/powerpc/kernel/livepatch.c with a stub for
> klp_write_module_reloc
> This is architecture-independent work in progress.
> * introduce a fixup in arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> for local calls that are becoming global due to live patching.
> And of course do the main KLP thing: return to a maybe different
> address, possibly altered by the live patching ftrace op.
>
> Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>

Hi,

I have a few questions...

We still need Petr's patch from [1] to make livepatch work, right? Could
you, please, add it to this patch set to make it self-sufficient?

Second, what is the situation with mcount prologue between gcc < 6 and
gcc-6? Are there only 12 bytes in gcc-6 prologue? If yes, we need to
change Petr's patch to make it more general and to be able to cope with
different prologues. This is unfortunate. Either way, please mention it
somewhere in a changelog.

I haven't reviewed the patch properly yet, but there is a comment below.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20151203160004.GE8047@pathway.suse.cz

> +/**
> + * klp_write_module_reloc() - write a relocation in a module
> + * @mod: module in which the section to be modified is found
> + * @type: ELF relocation type (see asm/elf.h)
> + * @loc: address that the relocation should be written to
> + * @value: relocation value (sym address + addend)
> + *
> + * This function writes a relocation to the specified location for
> + * a particular module.
> + */
> +int klp_write_module_reloc(struct module *mod, unsigned long type,
> + unsigned long loc, unsigned long value)
> +{
> + /* This requires infrastructure changes; we need the loadinfos. */
> + pr_err("lpc_write_module_reloc not yet supported\n");

This is a nit, but there is no lpc_write_module_reloc. It should be
klp_write_module_reloc.

Thanks,
Miroslav

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