linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Remove reliable stacktrace check in klp_try_switch

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Date:   Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:37:56 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Remove reliable stacktrace check in
 klp_try_switch_task()

> We bail out during patch registration for architectures, those don't
> support reliable stack trace.

Does anybody know if that change was intentional?  I thought the plan
was to allow non-consistency-model arches to still use livepatch, and
that they'd just have to 'force' patches to completion instead.  That
seems a little more forgiving.

-- 
Josh