Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933089AbcLUOal (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:30:41 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:41270 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751543AbcLUOaj (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:30:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:30:36 +0100 (CET) From: Miroslav Benes To: Josh Poimboeuf cc: Jessica Yu , Jiri Kosina , Petr Mladek , Linux Kernel Mailing List , live-patching@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman , Heiko Carstens , x86@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , Jiri Slaby , Chris J Arges , Andy Lutomirski , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/15] livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (LSU 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 576 Lines: 18 On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > Add the TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag to enable the new livepatch > per-task consistency model for powerpc. The bit getting set indicates > the thread has a pending patch which needs to be applied when the thread > exits the kernel. > > The bit is included in the _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK macro so that > do_notify_resume() and klp_update_patch_state() get called when the bit > is set. > > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Looks good to me. You can add my Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Miroslav