linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] livepatch: Atomic replace feature

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Date:   Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:16:37 +0100 (CET)
From:   Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@...tuozzo.com>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] livepatch: Atomic replace feature

On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Petr Mladek wrote:

> The atomic replace allows to create cumulative patches. They
> are useful when you maintain many livepatches and want to remove
> one that is lower on the stack. In addition it is very useful when
> more patches touch the same function and there are dependencies
> between them.

So I ported my old silly kgraft modules to livepatch and it works well. It 
does not say that much, because the tests are really simple stupid, but at 
least something.

Miroslav