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@xxxxxxxx> > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
