linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:49:50 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, bsingharora@...il.com, duwe@....de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, pmladek@...e.com, jeyu@...hat.com,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 15:22 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> > > This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM).
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > If there's no further comments I'll put this in a topic branch in the next day
> > > or two and Jiri & I will both merge that into next.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'll definitely give it a proper look today or tomorrow, but there is one 
> > thing that needs to be solved. The patch set from Jessica reworking 
> > relocations for live patching is now merged in our for-next branch. This 
> > means that we need to find out if there is something in struct 
> > mod_arch_specific for powerpc which needs to be preserved and do it.
> 
> Michael, if the plan is still the original one, i.e. you push it to your 
> branch, and I merge it to livepatching (and resolve any dependencies on 
> the relocations code during the merge) and push it to Linus from 
> livepatching.git, then there shouldn't be anything do to on your side.

That is my plan yeah.

Topic branch here:

  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/log/?h=topic/livepatch

I will merge that before Monday (my time) if I don't hear any objections.

cheers