On Fri 2017-08-11 16:11:31, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:48:12PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > Now there is a sysfs attribute called "force", which provides two > > functionalities, "signal" and "force" (previously "unmark"). I haven't > > managed to come up with better names. Proposals are welcome. On the > > other hand I do not mind it much. > > Now "force" has two meanings, which is a little confusing. What do you > think about just having two separate write-only sysfs flags? > > echo 1 > /sys/kernel/livepatch/signal > echo 1 > /sys/kernel/livepatch/force I like the simplicity but I wonder if there might be more actions that need to be forced in the future. Then this might cause confusion. For example, we have force_module_load attribute in kGraft. It allows to load a module even when it is refused by a livepatch. It is handy when there is a harmless bug in the patch. 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
