On Fri 2016-04-01 15:39:44, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Fri 2016-03-25 14:34:47, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > These patches are still a work in progress, but Jiri asked that I share > > them before I go on vacation next week. Based on origin/master because > > it has CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION. > > I have to follow Mirek and say that it is a great work. > > > There's also a func->immediate flag which allows users to specify that > > certain functions in the patch can be applied without per-task > > consistency. This might be useful if you want to patch a common > > function like schedule(), and the function change doesn't need > > consistency but the rest of the patch does. > > I like the possibility to immediately patch some functions or objects. > Just note that this is not yet completely implemented and it is not > on the TODO list. Correction. Only patch and func can be marked by the "immediate" flag, not an object. It looks fine. > We probably should not set func->transition flag when func->immediate > is set or when the related func->object is set. It currently happens > only when patch->immediate is set. This is true but only for func->transition. > Also we should ignore immediate functions and objects when the stack > is checked. This is already done. I have missed this. I am sorry for confusion. I should have shaken my head even more before writing. 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
