Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-28 Thread Chris J Arges
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:08:08PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Chris J Arges wrote: > > [ ... snip ... ] > > > + + Kretprobes using the ftrace framework conflict with the patched > > > > + + Kretprobes using the ftrace framework conflicts with the patched > > Chris, > >

Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-27 Thread Balbir Singh
On 28/04/16 06:08, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Jiri Kosina wrote: > >> I've incorporated most of the feedback (*) and pushed out to >> livepatching.git#for-4.7/livepatching-doc so everybody please send any >> followup documentation patches on top of that branch. > > (*) Balbir,

Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-27 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Chris J Arges wrote: [ ... snip ... ] > > + + Kretprobes using the ftrace framework conflict with the patched > > + + Kretprobes using the ftrace framework conflicts with the patched Chris, I've incorporated all your feedback except for this one; are you really sure abo

Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-27 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Jiri Kosina wrote: > I've incorporated most of the feedback (*) and pushed out to > livepatching.git#for-4.7/livepatching-doc so everybody please send any > followup documentation patches on top of that branch. (*) Balbir, some of your comments were a bit too vague; if you

Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-27 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Petr Mladek wrote: > LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. > This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that > it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also > potential developers of the framework itself. > > Signed-off-by: Petr Mla

Re: livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-27 Thread Jessica Yu
+++ Petr Mladek [25/04/16 17:14 +0200]: LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also potential developers of the framework itself. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Nice

Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-27 Thread Miroslav Benes
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Balbir Singh wrote: > > + + Anything inlined into __schedule() can not be patched. > > + > > +The switch_to macro is inlined into __schedule(). It switches the > > +context between two processes in the middle of the macro. It does > > +not save RIP in x86_64 versi

Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-26 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:14:35PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. > This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that > it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also > potential developers of the framework itself. > > Sig

Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-26 Thread Chris J Arges
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:14:35PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. > This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that > it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also > potential developers of the framework itself. > > Sig

Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-26 Thread Balbir Singh
Hi Petr Very very nice documentation, some comments inline Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh Balbir On 26/04/16 01:14, Petr Mladek wrote: > LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. > This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that > it will be useful for both LivePatch p

[PATCH v2] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-04-25 Thread Petr Mladek
LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also potential developers of the framework itself. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek --- This version incorporates feedback from all

Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-03-15 Thread Miroslav Benes
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Petr Mladek wrote: > > > LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. > > This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that > > it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also > > potential developers o

Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-03-10 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:01:46PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. > This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that > it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also > potential developers of the framework itself. > > Sig

Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-03-10 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Petr Mladek wrote: > LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. > This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that > it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also > potential developers of the framework itself. Thanks for starting the effo

Re: livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-03-09 Thread Jessica Yu
+++ Petr Mladek [09/03/16 15:01 +0100]: LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also potential developers of the framework itself. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek --- T

Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-03-09 Thread Nikolay Borisov
On 03/09/2016 04:01 PM, Petr Mladek wrote: > LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. > This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that > it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also > potential developers of the framework itself. > > Signed-off-by: Petr

[PATCH] livepatch: Add some basic LivePatch documentation

2016-03-09 Thread Petr Mladek
LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also potential developers of the framework itself. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek --- This patch was motivated by the LivePatch p