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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, bsingharora@gmail.com, duwe@lst.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, pmladek@suse.com, jikos@kernel.org,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Live patching for powerpc
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:01:46 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1460714506.22415.0.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1604151018220.4334@pobox.suse.cz>

On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 10:28 +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Jessica Yu wrote:
> > For the 32-bit module code, I don't believe we would need to preserve
> > the .init.plt section for livepatch's call to apply_relocate_add(),
> > since relocations to init sections should've been applied during
> > module initialization, and we don't patch those types of functions.
> > Please correct me if my understanding is off.
> 
> I think you are right, but I also think we don't have to worry about 
> 32-bit powerpc anyway. This patch set supports ppc64le only so we can 
> leave it for now.

Yep. Who ever wants to do 32-bit live patch support can cross that bridge when
they come to it.

cheers

      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-15 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-13 12:53 [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Michael Ellerman
2016-04-13 12:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] ftrace: Make ftrace_location_range() global Michael Ellerman
2016-04-19 10:16   ` [1/5] " Michael Ellerman
2016-04-13 12:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] livepatch: Allow architectures to specify an alternate ftrace location Michael Ellerman
2016-04-14 12:01   ` Miroslav Benes
2016-04-14 13:06     ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-14 14:06       ` Miroslav Benes
2016-04-19 10:16   ` [2/5] " Michael Ellerman
2016-04-13 12:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch header Michael Ellerman
2016-04-14 12:18   ` Miroslav Benes
2016-04-14 12:23     ` Miroslav Benes
2016-04-14 13:12       ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-19 10:16   ` [3/5] " Michael Ellerman
2016-04-13 12:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch stack to struct thread_info Michael Ellerman
2016-04-19 10:16   ` [4/5] " Michael Ellerman
2016-04-13 12:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] powerpc/livepatch: Add live patching support on ppc64le Michael Ellerman
2016-04-19 10:16   ` [5/5] " Michael Ellerman
2016-04-13 13:01 ` [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc Miroslav Benes
2016-04-13 13:22   ` Jiri Kosina
2016-04-14  6:49     ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-14 12:57       ` Torsten Duwe
2016-04-14 13:08         ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-14 15:20           ` Torsten Duwe
2016-04-14 16:41             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-15 11:22               ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-15 12:59                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-15 13:21                   ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-14 14:34         ` Jiri Kosina
2016-04-15 12:24           ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-15 15:07       ` Jiri Kosina
2016-04-19 21:42         ` Balbir Singh
2016-04-19 21:52           ` Jiri Kosina
2016-04-13 18:22   ` Jessica Yu
2016-04-14 13:28     ` Miroslav Benes
2016-04-14 19:20       ` Jessica Yu
2016-04-15  8:28         ` Miroslav Benes
2016-04-15 10:01           ` Michael Ellerman [this message]

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