On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > v4: > - Fixed rebase bisection regression [Miroslav] > - Made module_enable_ro() static [Jessica] > - Added Acked-by's > > v3: > - klp: split klp_write_relocations() into object/section specific > functions [joe] > - s390: fix plt/got writes [joe] > - s390: remove text_mutex usage [mbenes] > - x86: do text_poke_sync() before releasing text_mutex [peterz] > - split x86 text_mutex changes into separate patch [mbenes] > > v2: > - add vmlinux.ko check [peterz] > - remove 'klp_object' forward declaration [mbenes] > - use text_mutex [jeyu] > - fix documentation TOC [jeyu] > - fix s390 issues [mbenes] > - upstream kpatch-build now supports this > (though it's only enabled for Linux >= 5.8) > > These patches add simplifications and improvements for some issues Peter > found six months ago, as part of his non-writable text code (W^X) > cleanups. > > Highlights: > > - Remove the livepatch arch-specific .klp.arch sections, which were used > to do paravirt patching and alternatives patching for livepatch > replacement code. > > - Add support for jump labels in patched code (only for static keys > which live in vmlinux). > > - Remove the last module_disable_ro() usage. > > For more background, see this thread: > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191021135312.jbbxsuipxldocdjk@treble > > This has been tested with kpatch-build integration tests and klp-convert > selftests. So I think this should best go through livepatching.git for 5.8. Unless anyone has a better idea or objects heavily, I'll queue it tomorrow. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
