Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] livepatch: implement patch versioning

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On Mon 2019-02-11 11:05:16, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> Add a simple livepatch versioning policy to the livepatch core.  For
> those klp_patches with non-zero version, only load those with higher
> versions than the livepatch core's latest-version.  Livepatches may opt
> out of the policy altogether (i.e. patches always load and do not update
> latest-version) by specifying klp_patch.version=0.

I think that a more practical would be a per-feature/per-callback-set
versions.

We currently support many code streams. By definition, there are more
released livepatches for older kernels that for recent ones. It might
be error prone to decide about a particular feature by a global
version that would be different in different code streams.

Best Regards,
Petr

PS: I would like to start working on the support soon. Of course,
it depends how many things come into my way.



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