linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Periodic fake signal

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Message-ID: <20190116221239.3mcf5vc33vbrj7rh@treble>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:12:39 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Cc:     jeyu@...nel.org, jikos@...nel.org, pmladek@...e.com,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Periodic fake signal

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 05:45:05PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> I somehow forgot about this patch set. The discussion about v1 was
> inconclusive, so I'm sending it again with changes according to the
> feedback I got. I still think it is useful, so please consider.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - timeout changed to 15 seconds (Josh)
> - make it wait for 15 seconds, no more, no less (Josh)
> - the message in klp_send_signals() is printed only once per transition
>   (Josh)
> - the counter is zeroed in klp_start_transition(), so that even
>   klp_reverse_transition() starts correctly (Petr)
> 
> Miroslav Benes (2):
>   livepatch: Send a fake signal periodically
>   livepatch: Remove signal sysfs attribute
> 
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch        | 12 ---
>  Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt         | 15 ++-
>  kernel/livepatch/core.c                       | 32 -------
>  kernel/livepatch/transition.c                 | 93 +++++++++++--------
>  kernel/livepatch/transition.h                 |  1 -
>  5 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>

-- 
Josh