On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 02:49:26PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 13:34:33 -0600 > Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:58:57AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 07:51:57PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > I don't think this specific example was generated. > > > > So there are two ways to use this live patching API: using a generated > > module (e.g., using the kpatch-build tool) or manually compiling a > > module via kbuild. > > > > Vojtech's right, the provided example was not generated. Maybe it > > belongs in samples/livepatch? > > > > I understand that there is two methods in doing this. Is it possible to > create a "simple generator" that only does the simple case. Perhaps can > detect non simple cases where it rejects the change and tells the user > they need to reboot. > > Something that isn't really related to either kpatch or kGraft, but can > be used for testing purposes?
For basic testing, a generator isn't needed. You can just use kbuild to compile a kmod from a human-created source file, a la kGraft. For example: https://github.com/spartacus06/livepatch/blob/master/patch/patch.c -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
