Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] Implement livepatch on PPC32

[Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>]

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Christophe Leroy wrote:

> This series implements livepatch on PPC32.
> 
> This is largely copied from what's done on PPC64.
> 
> Christophe Leroy (5):
>   livepatch: Fix build failure on 32 bits processors
>   powerpc/ftrace: No need to read LR from stack in _mcount()
>   powerpc/ftrace: Add module_trampoline_target() for PPC32
>   powerpc/ftrace: Activate HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS on PPC32
>   powerpc/ftrace: Add support for livepatch to PPC32
> 
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                  |   2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h  |   4 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c       |  33 +++++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace.c    |  53 +++-----
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_32.S | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  kernel/livepatch/core.c               |   4 +-
>  6 files changed, 230 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

thanks for the patch set!

I wondered whether the reliability of stack traces also applies to PPC32. 
This was obviously resolved by accdd093f260 ("powerpc: Activate 
HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE for all").

Did the patch set pass the selftests in 
tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/ ?

Regards

Miroslav