From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:00:57 +0100 From: Petr Mladek Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/15] livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag Message-ID: <20161216160057.GG393@pathway.suse.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Jessica Yu , Jiri Kosina , Miroslav Benes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman , Heiko Carstens , x86@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , Jiri Slaby , Chris J Arges , Andy Lutomirski , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra List-ID: On Thu 2016-12-08 12:08:30, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > Add the TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag to enable the new livepatch > per-task consistency model for powerpc. The bit getting set indicates > the thread has a pending patch which needs to be applied when the thread > exits the kernel. > > The bit is included in the _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK macro so that > do_notify_resume() and klp_update_patch_state() get called when the bit > is set. > > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Best Regards, Petr