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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
	Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>,
	Waseem Daher <wdaher@mit.edu>,
	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] Ksplice: Support updating x86-32 and x86-64
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:41:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217054127.GI10590@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228521840-3886-8-git-send-email-jbarnold@mit.edu>

One thing that would be *really* helpful is some function-level
documentation.  What various functions do, what locks they assume are
held, what locks they take/release, etc.  kernel/ksplice.c is *long*
some signposts would definitely make it easier for folks to understand
what is going on.

Regards,

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-06  0:03 [PATCH 0/7] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06  0:03 ` [PATCH 1/7] Make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06  0:03   ` [PATCH 2/7] x86: Add an option to compile " Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06  0:03     ` [PATCH 3/7] Ksplice: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06  0:03       ` [PATCH 4/7] Ksplice: Add module_data_address (the analogue of module_text_address) Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06  0:03         ` [PATCH 5/7] Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06  0:03           ` [PATCH 6/7] Ksplice: Export symbols needed for Ksplice Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06  0:04             ` [PATCH 7/7] Ksplice: Support updating x86-32 and x86-64 Jeff Arnold
2008-12-17  5:41               ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-12-18  2:09                 ` Tim Abbott
2009-02-07  2:36               ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-10  1:01                 ` Tim Abbott
2009-02-04 11:35             ` [PATCH 6/7] Ksplice: Export symbols needed for Ksplice Rusty Russell
2009-02-13  1:46               ` Tim Abbott
2009-02-16  7:11                 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 11:30           ` [PATCH 5/7] Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 21:31             ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-02-04 11:21         ` [PATCH 4/7] Ksplice: Add module_data_address (the analogue of module_text_address) Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 20:48           ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-02-07 12:45             ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04  9:26       ` [PATCH 3/7] Ksplice: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol Rusty Russell
2009-02-04  8:38     ` [PATCH 2/7] x86: Add an option to compile with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 10:26       ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-02-04 10:58         ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 20:50           ` Anders Kaseorg
2008-12-06  8:46   ` [PATCH 1/7] Make section names compatible " Andi Kleen
2008-12-31 19:18     ` Tim Abbott
2008-12-31 19:52       ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-31 21:59         ` Tim Abbott
2009-01-01 16:32           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-04 19:20             ` Tim Abbott
2009-01-12 21:51               ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-12 22:11                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-04  8:15   ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-05  1:11     ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-02-05  2:00       ` Anders Kaseorg
2008-12-17  2:48 ` [PATCH 0/7] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates Tim Abbott
2008-12-17  3:07   ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-17  3:53     ` Dave Jones
2008-12-17 17:19       ` Jeff Arnold
2008-12-17  5:05     ` Tim Abbott
2008-12-17 12:09       ` Ben Collins
2008-12-17 12:06     ` Ben Collins

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