Re: [PATCH v13 00/12] livepatch: Atomic replace feature

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 02:37:01PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> The atomic replace allows to create cumulative patches. They
> are useful when you maintain many livepatches and want to remove
> one that is lower on the stack. In addition it is very useful when
> more patches touch the same function and there are dependencies
> between them.
> 
> Now, the question is if 13 is a lucky number. I hope so
> and that this version might get merged. Any feedback?
>
> Not only from Mirek, please ;-)
> 
> 
> Changes against v12:
> 
>   + Finish freeing the patch using workqueues to prevent
>     deadlock against kobject code.
> 
>   + Check for valid pointers when initializing the dynamic
>     lists objects and functions.
> 
>   + Mark klp_free_objects_dynamic() static.
> 
>   + Improved documentation and fixed typos

Other than the few comments I made, this is looking good to me.  I'm
optimistic about v14.  It's probably best to not merge a v13 anyway. ;-)
Thanks a lot for sticking with it.

-- 
Josh



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