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From: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 8/8] livepatch: Detect offset for the ftrace location during build
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:00:30 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216103028.GA10730@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160216082302.GA20522@lst.de>

* Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de> [2016-02-16 09:23:02]:

> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:17:02AM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > * Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> [2016-02-12 17:45:17]:
> > >  int test(int a)
> > >  {
> > > +	printk("%d\n", a);
> > >  	return ++a;
> > >  }
> > 
> > Thanks. This workaround, helped to load sample livepatch module.
> 
> N.b.: if you try to livepatch/trace such a leaf function without
> global dependencies, it will crash if that function got called with
> a different TOC value. Hence this whole testing.
> 

I am running out of ideas on how to generate this crash, any pointers
will be helpful.

> You may alternatively try my gcc patch ;-)

Thank you. I will give the patch a try.

Regards,
Kamalesh

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-16 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-10 17:29 [PATCH v8 0/8] ftrace with regs + live patching for ppc64 LE (ABI v2) Torsten Duwe
2016-01-28 15:32 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] livepatch: Detect offset for the ftrace location during build Torsten Duwe
2016-02-12 16:13   ` Balbir Singh
2016-02-12 16:45     ` Petr Mladek
2016-02-13  1:33       ` Balbir Singh
2016-02-16  5:47       ` Kamalesh Babulal
2016-02-16  8:23         ` Torsten Duwe
2016-02-16 10:30           ` Kamalesh Babulal [this message]
2016-02-16 10:39             ` Torsten Duwe
2016-02-16 13:57               ` Petr Mladek
2016-02-17  3:08                 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-02-23 17:00                   ` Torsten Duwe
2016-02-24  6:37                     ` Balbir Singh
2016-02-24  6:55                       ` Balbir Singh
2016-02-24  9:23                         ` Torsten Duwe
2016-02-24 11:22                           ` Balbir Singh
2016-02-24  7:51                     ` Kamalesh Babulal
2016-02-10 16:21 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] ppc64 (le): prepare for -mprofile-kernel Torsten Duwe
2016-02-17 10:55   ` Michael Ellerman
2016-02-17 11:30     ` Torsten Duwe
2016-02-17 11:39       ` Michael Ellerman
2016-02-10 16:22 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] ppc64le FTRACE_WITH_REGS implementation Torsten Duwe
2016-02-10 16:22 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] ppc use ftrace_modify_all_code default Torsten Duwe
2016-02-10 16:25 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] ppc64 ftrace_with_regs configuration variables Torsten Duwe
2016-02-11  7:48   ` Balbir Singh
2016-02-11  8:39     ` Kamalesh Babulal
2016-02-11  9:35       ` Balbir Singh
2016-02-11 13:00         ` Murali Sampath
2016-02-11 13:00           ` Murali Sampath
2016-02-11 13:00         ` Murali Sampath
2016-02-11 13:00           ` Murali Sampath
2016-02-11  8:42     ` Torsten Duwe
2016-02-11  9:34       ` Balbir Singh
2016-02-15 10:27       ` Michael Ellerman
2016-02-15 12:56         ` Jiri Kosina
2016-02-15 14:04         ` Torsten Duwe
2016-02-15 22:21           ` Torsten Duwe
2016-02-16  4:53             ` Balbir Singh
2016-02-16 10:09           ` Michael Ellerman
2016-02-16 10:35             ` Torsten Duwe
2016-02-10 16:27 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] ppc64 ftrace_with_regs: disable profiling for some files Torsten Duwe
2016-02-10 16:34 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] Implement kernel live patching for ppc64le (ABIv2) Torsten Duwe
2016-02-11  9:01   ` Miroslav Benes
2016-02-10 16:36 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] Enable LIVEPATCH to be configured on ppc64le and add livepatch.o if it is selected Torsten Duwe
2016-02-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v8 0/8] ftrace with regs + live patching for ppc64 LE (ABI v2) Balbir Singh
2016-02-11  8:38   ` Torsten Duwe

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