Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752127AbcDOMYk (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:24:40 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:34229 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750858AbcDOMYj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:24:39 -0400 Message-ID: <1460723070.22415.5.camel@ellerman.id.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc From: Michael Ellerman To: Jiri Kosina , Torsten Duwe Cc: Miroslav Benes , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, bsingharora@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, pmladek@suse.com, jeyu@redhat.com, live-patching@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 22:24:30 +1000 In-Reply-To: References: <1460552003-15409-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> <1460616590.2754.6.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20160414125735.GA20296@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5-1ubuntu3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1162 Lines: 29 On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 16:34 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > > > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the exception that > > > > > > I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only patch. > > > > Confirmed. And it still works on top of 4.6-rc3, even with the > > additional testing. > > Thanks a lot for testing. > > The imporant part here is testing on top of > livepatching.git#for-4.7/arch-independent-klp-relocations as well. > > I am pretty sure there will be adjustments needed for the merge, as we'll > have to figure out which parts of ELF can't be thrown away and need to be > preserved in order for the relocation entry to be successfully > constructed. > > Michael, I think this is an additional reason why the whole final pile > will have to go through livepatching.git, as the merge with what we have > in for-4.7/arch-independent-klp-relocations might not be completely > trivial. Well it will go through both :) I'll merge it into powerpc#next, and you can merge it into livepatching and do what ever else is needed as part of, or after, that merge. cheers