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Message-Id: <2A1B7DE1-07C7-42F5-84ED-598ED538EC43@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 09:54:15 +0800
From: zhang warden <zhangwarden@...il.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
Cc: live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] livepatch: Add using attribute to klp_func for
using function show
> On Aug 28, 2024, at 10:23, Wardenjohn <zhangwarden@...il.com> wrote:
>
> One system may contains more than one livepatch module. We can see
> which patch is enabled. If some patches applied to one system
> modifing the same function, livepatch will use the function enabled
> on top of the function stack. However, we can not excatly know
> which function of which patch is now enabling.
>
> This patch introduce one sysfs attribute of "using" to klp_func.
> For example, if there are serval patches make changes to function
> "meminfo_proc_show", the attribute "enabled" of all the patch is 1.
> With this attribute, we can easily know the version enabling belongs
> to which patch.
>
> The "using" is set as three state. 0 is disabled, it means that this
> version of function is not used. 1 is running, it means that this
> version of function is now running. -1 is unknown, it means that
> this version of function is under transition, some task is still
> chaning their running version of this function.
>
> cat /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch1>/<object1>/<function1,sympos>/using -> 0
> means that the function1 of patch1 is disabled.
>
> cat /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patchN>/<object1>/<function1,sympos>/using -> 1
> means that the function1 of patchN is enabled.
>
> cat /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patchN>/<object1>/<function1,sympos>/using -> -1
> means that the function1 of patchN is under transition and unknown.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wardenjohn <zhangwarden@...il.com>
>
>
Hi, Maintainers.
How about this patch? I am looking for your suggestions.
Regards,
Wardenjohn.
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