linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv4 0/3] Kernel Live Patching

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Date:	Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:55:08 -0600
From:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, kpatch@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 0/3] Kernel Live Patching

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 06:00:54PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2014/11/26 2:15), Seth Jennings wrote:
> > Note to Steve:
> > Masami's IPMODIFY patch is heading for -next via your tree.  Once it arrives,
> > I'll rebase and make the change to set IPMODIFY.  Do not pull this for -next
> > yet.  This version (v4) is for review and gathering acks.
> 
> BTW, as we discussed IPMODIFY is an exclusive flag. So if we allocate ftrace_ops
> for each function in each patch, it could be conflict each other.
> Maybe we need to have another ops hashtable to find such conflict and new
> handler to handle it.

I agree, but this is not a problem with the current patch set because it
doesn't yet support patching the same function multiple times :-)

-- 
Josh
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