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Message-ID: <54DA356E.8030806@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:44:30 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>
CC:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/9] livepatch: separate enabled and patched states

On 02/09/2015, 06:31 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Once we have a consistency model, patches and their objects will be
> enabled and disabled at different times.  For example, when a patch is
> disabled, its loaded objects' funcs can remain registered with ftrace
> indefinitely until the unpatching operation is complete and they're no
> longer in use.
> 
> It's less confusing if we give them different names: patches can be
> enabled or disabled; objects (and their funcs) can be patched or
> unpatched:
> 
> - Enabled means that a patch is logically enabled (but not necessarily
>   fully applied).
> 
> - Patched means that an object's funcs are registered with ftrace and
>   added to the klp_ops func stack.
> 
> Also, since these states are binary, represent them with boolean-type
> variables instead of enums.

So please do so: we have bool/true/false.

-- 
js
suse labs
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