From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
jpoimboe@redhat.com, jeyu@kernel.org, pmladek@suse.com,
lpechacek@suse.cz, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] livepatch: force transition process to finish
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 12:14:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171109111424.GA18787@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1711061259040.6470@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
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On Mon 2017-11-06 13:03:32, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > NAK. Admin does not have chance to decide if this is safe or not.
>
> The process that is actually being suggested here (and towards which the
> implementation is heading) is that in case of the convergence being stuck
> for unknown reason, the admin of the system collects all the necessary
> data (namely stacktraces of the relevant tasks), and requests a clearance
> from the livepatch distributor to force the transition.
>
> But I agree with you that this might not be completely clear from the
> documentation, and should be made more explicit.
Yes, please.
Pavel
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-31 11:48 [PATCH v3 0/2] livepatch: Introduce signal and force sysfs attributes Miroslav Benes
2017-10-31 11:48 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] livepatch: send a fake signal to all blocking tasks Miroslav Benes
2017-11-01 15:06 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-11-01 15:13 ` Petr Mladek
2017-11-01 16:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-11-02 10:36 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-11-02 14:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-11-02 13:09 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-03 8:02 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-11-03 12:57 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-02 13:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-03 8:06 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-11-06 11:08 ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-31 11:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] livepatch: force transition process to finish Miroslav Benes
2017-11-01 15:32 ` Petr Mladek
2017-11-02 13:13 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-03 8:07 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-11-06 11:11 ` Pavel Machek
2017-11-06 12:03 ` Jiri Kosina
2017-11-09 11:14 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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