Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Remove klp_arch_set_pc() and asm/livepatch.h

Petr Mladek
2022-05-23T15:15:46Z

On Mon 2022-05-23 06:51:47, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> Le 29/03/2022 à 13:22, Petr Mladek a écrit :
> > On Mon 2022-03-28 08:26:48, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> >> All three versions of klp_arch_set_pc() do exactly the same: they
> >> call ftrace_instruction_pointer_set().
> >>
> >> Call ftrace_instruction_pointer_set() directly and remove
> >> klp_arch_set_pc().
> >>
> >> As klp_arch_set_pc() was the only thing remaining in asm/livepatch.h
> >> on x86 and s390, remove asm/livepatch.h
> >>
> >> livepatch.h remains on powerpc but its content is exclusively used
> >> by powerpc specific code.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> >
> > Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> >
> > I am going to take it via livepatch/livepatch.git for 5.19. We are
> > already in the middle of the merge window and this is not critical.
> >
>
> I haven't seen it in linux-next.
>
> Do you still plan to take it for 5.19 ?

Thanks a lot for pointing this out. I have completely forgot about
this patch /o\

I have just pushed it into livepatching/livepatching.git,
branch for-5.19/cleanup.

I am going to create pull request for 5.19 by the end of this week
after it gets a spin in linux-next.

Best Regards,
Petr