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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1512141344310.389@pobox.suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:45:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
To: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>
cc: live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
jpoimboe@...hat.com, jikos@...nel.org, pmladek@...e.com,
jeyu@...hat.com, Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 v9] livepatch: add sympos as disambiguator field to
klp_reloc
On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Chris J Arges wrote:
> In cases of duplicate symbols, sympos will be used to disambiguate instead
> of val. By default sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if
> the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that
> occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object will be used
> for patching if it is valid. For external relocations sympos is not
> supported.
>
> Remove klp_verify_callback, klp_verify_args and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol
> as they are no longer used.
>
> >From the klp_reloc structure remove val, as it can be refactored as a
> local variable in klp_write_object_relocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>
FWIW
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Miroslav
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