linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] livepatch: Remove custom kobject state handling and duplicated code

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Date:   Fri, 3 May 2019 11:39:09 -0400
From:   Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Tobin C . Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] livepatch: Remove custom kobject state handling and
 duplicated code

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 03:26:23PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Tobin's patch[1] uncovered that the livepatching code handles kobjects
> a too complicated way.
> 
> The first patch removes the unnecessary custom kobject state handling.
> 
> The second patch is an optional code deduplication. I did something
> similar already when introducing the atomic replace. But it was
> not considered worth it. There are more duplicated things now...
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190430001534.26246-1-tobin@kernel.org
> 
> 
> Petr Mladek (2):
>   livepatch: Remove custom kobject state handling
>   livepatch: Remove duplicated code for early initialization
> 
>  include/linux/livepatch.h |  3 --
>  kernel/livepatch/core.c   | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.16.4
> 

For the series,

Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>

-- Joe