linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Disable non-ABI-compliant optimisations for live patching

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:36:58 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
cc:	Torsten Duwe <duwe@....de>, matz@...e.de,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable non-ABI-compliant optimisations for live
 patching

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Pavel Machek wrote:

> I believe you want "whenever source of function A influenced code in 
> function B, I want to be notified", and I believe it should be 
> documented as such.

Well, exactly. IPA is a group of optimizations that are, by definition, 
intra-prodcedural.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs