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@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx> Miroslav -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
