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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch
    On Wed 2016-02-03 20:11:05, Jessica Yu wrote:
    > This patchset removes livepatch's need for architecture-specific relocation
    > code by leveraging existing code in the module loader to perform
    > arch-dependent work. Specifically, instead of duplicating code and
    > re-implementing what the apply_relocate_add() function in the module loader
    > already does in livepatch's klp_write_module_reloc(), we reuse
    > apply_relocate_add() to write relocations. The hope is that this will make
    > livepatch more easily portable to other architectures and greatly reduce
    > the amount of arch-specific code required to port livepatch to a particular
    > architecture.
    >
    > Jessica Yu (6):
    > Elf: add livepatch-specific Elf constants
    > module: s390: keep mod_arch_specific for livepatch modules
    > samples: livepatch: mark as livepatch module
    > Documentation: livepatch: outline Elf format and requirements for
    > patch modules

    For the four above patches:

    Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>


    > module: preserve Elf information for livepatch modules
    > livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations

    These two still need some tweaking.

    I think that we are getting close. I like the way we go.
    The documentation is excellent.

    Thanks a lot for working on it.

    Best Regards,
    Petr

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