| Date | Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:54:50 +0100 (CET) | From | Miroslav Benes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 08/15] livepatch: separate enabled and patched states |
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On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Once we have a consistency model, patches and their objects will be > enabled and disabled at different times. For example, when a patch is > disabled, its loaded objects' funcs can remain registered with ftrace > indefinitely until the unpatching operation is complete and they're no > longer in use. > > It's less confusing if we give them different names: patches can be > enabled or disabled; objects (and their funcs) can be patched or > unpatched: > > - Enabled means that a patch is logically enabled (but not necessarily > fully applied). > > - Patched means that an object's funcs are registered with ftrace and > added to the klp_ops func stack. > > Also, since these states are binary, represent them with booleans > instead of ints. > > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Miroslav
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