On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:39:56AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Would it be possible to document which kind of guarantees live > patching needs from compiler? Sure, here you go, all required guarantees: Stick to the ABI. > I always assumed that whoever is preparing the patch does manual > investigation to see what needs to be changed and how, but apparantly > that's not the case, so documentation would be good. See above for the documentation. Imagine each architecture had a whole hand-optimised assembler kernel. That would give some performance improvement, right? Same issue here, only much smaller. It's ultimate performance vs. maintainability. HTH, Torsten -- 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
