* Petr Mladek <[email protected]> [2016-03-03 17:52:01]:

> From: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
> 
> Changelog v4:
>       1. Renamed klp_matchaddr() to klp_get_ftrace_location()
>          and used it just to convert the function address.
>       2. Synced klp_write_module_reloc() with s390(); made it
>          inline, no error message, return -ENOSYS
>       3. Added an error message when including
>          powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h without HAVE_LIVEPATCH
>       4. Update some comments.
> Changelog v3:
>       1. Moved -ENOSYS to -EINVAL in klp_write_module_reloc
>       2. Moved klp_matchaddr to use ftrace_location_range
> Changelog v2:
>       1. Implement review comments by Michael
>       2. The previous version compared _NIP from the
>          wrong location to check for whether we
>          are going to a patched location
> 
> This applies on top of the patches posted by Michael
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/589791/
> 
> It enables livepatching. This takes patch 6/8 and 7/8 of v8 as the base.
> (See the reference [1] below) and adds logic for checking offset ranges
> in livepatch with ftrace_location_range.
> 
> I tested the sample in the livepatch
> 
> Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <[email protected]>

I tried it, with the sample livepatch module.

Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <[email protected]>



Thanks,
Kamalesh.

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