linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] livepatch: force transition to finish

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Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1711210009590.32604@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:11:14 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
cc:     jeyu@...nel.org, pmladek@...e.com, lpechacek@...e.cz, pavel@....cz,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] livepatch: force transition to finish

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> I agree; the only thing I think really has to be done is putting a comment 
> there, explaining why forcing implies infinite module reference (and also 
> perhaps making it therefore even more obvious from documentation, that 
> this really is a last-resort-"you-know-what-you-are-doing" kind of knob).

Miroslav, could you please just send v2 of 2/2, so that I can apply it?

Josh, given your latest comment I assume that your Ack holds even for v2 
with the proposed ammendment (perhaps with an extra comment), unless you 
tell me otherwise.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs