Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 16:34 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> > > > > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the exception that
> > > > > > I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only patch.
> > 
> > Confirmed. And it still works on top of 4.6-rc3, even with the 
> > additional testing.
> 
> Thanks a lot for testing.
> 
> The imporant part here is testing on top of 
> livepatching.git#for-4.7/arch-independent-klp-relocations as well.
> 
> I am pretty sure there will be adjustments needed for the merge, as we'll 
> have to figure out which parts of ELF can't be thrown away and need to be 
> preserved in order for the relocation entry to be successfully 
> constructed.
> 
> Michael, I think this is an additional reason why the whole final pile 
> will have to go through livepatching.git, as the merge with what we have 
> in for-4.7/arch-independent-klp-relocations might not be completely 
> trivial.

Well it will go through both :)

I'll merge it into powerpc#next, and you can merge it into livepatching and do
what ever else is needed as part of, or after, that merge.

cheers