Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

2016-02-09 Thread Petr Mladek
On Wed 2016-02-03 20:11:05, Jessica Yu wrote: > This patchset removes livepatch's need for architecture-specific relocation > code by leveraging existing code in the module loader to perform > arch-dependent work. Specifically, instead of duplicating code and > re-implementing what the apply_reloca

Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

2016-02-08 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:54:22PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: > > > Jessica Yu (6): > > Elf: add livepatch-specific Elf constants > > module: preserve Elf information for livepatch modules > > module: s390: keep mod_arch_specific for livepatch module

Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

2016-02-08 Thread Miroslav Benes
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: > Jessica Yu (6): > Elf: add livepatch-specific Elf constants > module: preserve Elf information for livepatch modules > module: s390: keep mod_arch_specific for livepatch modules > livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations > samples:

[RFC PATCH v4 0/6] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

2016-02-03 Thread Jessica Yu
This patchset removes livepatch's need for architecture-specific relocation code by leveraging existing code in the module loader to perform arch-dependent work. Specifically, instead of duplicating code and re-implementing what the apply_relocate_add() function in the module loader already does in