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From:   Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] livepatch: Allow to unpatch only functions of
 the given type
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Petr Mladek wrote:

> From: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
> 
> We are going to add a feature called atomic replace. It will allow to
> create a patch that would replace all already registered patches.
> For this, we will need to dynamically create funcs and objects
> for functions that are no longer patched.
> 
> The dynamically allocated objects will not longer be needed once
> the patch is applied.
> 
> This patch allows to unpatch functions of the given type. It might
> cause that the obj->patched flag is true even when some listed
> functions are not longer patched. This is fine as long as the
> unpatched funcs' structures are removed right after. It will
> be the case. Anyway, it is safe. In the worst case, it will
> not be possible to enable the disabled functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
> [pmladek@suse.com: Split and modified to use the generic ftype]
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
> Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>

Miroslav