On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Thu 2017-08-10 12:48:12, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > Currently, livepatch gradually migrate the system from an unpatched to a > > patched state (or vice versa). Each task drops its TIF_PATCH_PENDING > > itself when crossing the kernel/user space boundary or it is cleared > > using the stack checking approach. If there is a task which sleeps on a > > patched function, the whole transition can get stuck indefinitely. > > > > TODO: > > Now there is a sysfs attribute called "force", which provides two > > functionalities, "signal" and "force" (previously "unmark"). I haven't > > managed to come up with better names. Proposals are welcome. On the > > other hand I do not mind it much. > > What about calling the attribute? > > transition-speedup > transition-urge > > In each case, I would make it more clear that the attribute > is related to the transition attribute of each patch.
Umm... I don't like that much and those names would definitely confuse me. But I'm biased already. Miroslav
