On 09/14/2018 10:34 AM, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Thu 2018-09-13 11:10:15, Jason Baron wrote: >> >> >> On 09/03/2018 12:54 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> In case you'd like to have anything modified/added, please let me know. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >> >> Hi, >> >> I was interested in attending as well. I am interested in if there is >> interest in providing livepatches for the -stable trees. And if so, what >> might that process look like? > > What do you mean by providing livepatches for -stable trees, please? > > It is true that the livepatch is built from source code. But it might > need to be customized for different binaries. For example, inlined > functions cannot be livepatched directly. The callers need to be > included into the livepatch instead. The affected functions > would depend on compiler, compiler flags, configure options, etc. > > I think that more practical might be to discuss what needs to be > done to automatize the livepatch creation. > So an example would be for data structure changes where a custom patch might need to be written. Where would that live? If that can all be automated that's awesome... Thanks, -Jason
