From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:47:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2 0/5] arm64: kernel: Add support for User Access Override In-Reply-To: <13475776.5b1DTHhHh9@wuerfel> References: <1454684330-892-1-git-send-email-james.morse@arm.com> <13475776.5b1DTHhHh9@wuerfel> Message-ID: <20160209094707.GA22874@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 04:40:54PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > * Do we expect to handle this using live patching indefinitely? I can imagine > that at some point in the future, ARMv8.2+ systems will be the vast majority, > so it might be nice to support enabling it unconditionally (same for any > of the alternative bits really). Is there a long-term strategy? Another good reason for an option turning these things on by default is that it makes debugging *so* much easier when the vmlinux matches what's actually running! So yes, that's definitely something we should look at in the long-term, but we still need the live patching for distro kernels that will assumedly want a single Image covering ARMv8+ for a while. Will