Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Feb 2016 16:56:30 +0100 | From | Petr Mladek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch |
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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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