linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] livepatch: Implement separate coming and going module notifiers

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Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:27:57 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] livepatch: Implement separate coming and going module
 notifiers

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> Right, as you say it's basically a nop 99.99% of the time.  But we still 
> need to do the "are any patches loaded" check, so we still need the call 
> into a livepatch function to do that.

We might create a static key for that (some might call it 
over-optimization though, given it's happening on kind of a slow path 
anyway).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs