Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > These are the remaining 3 patches that came from the original ftrace/livepatch > module notifier patchset found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/1180 Please add my Acked-by to the first and third. Cheers, Rusty. > Basically, the patchset does a bit of module.c cleanup (patch 1 and 2) in > preparation for the klp_module_{coming,going} calls (patch 3). We decided > to stop relying on the module notifier callchain in favor of hard-coding > the appropriate livepatch function calls that handle coming and going > modules. Hard-coding these calls will guarantee that ftrace and livepatch > exit/initialization routines are called in the correct order without > relying on module notifiers. > > The patches should be nearly exactly the same as those from the previous > discussion, except in patch 3 I've added back the #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LIVEPATCH) > guard in livepatch.h, and in patch 2 I decided that it might be safer to > change mod->state with the module mutex held. > > Patches based on linux-next. > > Previous discussion found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/1180 > > Jessica Yu (3): > modules: split part of complete_formation() into prepare_coming_module() > modules: set mod->state to GOING before going notifiers are called > livepatch/module: remove livepatch module notifier > > include/linux/livepatch.h | 13 +++++ > kernel/livepatch/core.c | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ > kernel/module.c | 39 ++++++++++--- > 3 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.4.3 -- 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
