Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Balbir Singh wrote: > Thanks, do we have a summary of what the relocation changes look like? This work is queued in livepatching.git#for-4.7/arch-independent-klp-relocations -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-19 Thread Balbir Singh
On 16/04/16 01:07, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote: > >> Topic branch here: >> >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/log/?h=topic/livepatch >> >> I will merge that before Monday (my time) if I don't hear any objections. > > I've

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-15 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Topic branch here: > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/log/?h=topic/livepatch > > I will merge that before Monday (my time) if I don't hear any objections. I've now pulled this into livepatching.git#for-4.7/livep

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-15 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 07:59 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:22:49PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 11:41 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:20:29PM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:08:02PM +1

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-15 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:22:49PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 11:41 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:20:29PM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:08:02PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 14:57

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-15 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 16:34 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > > > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the > > > > > > exception that > > > > > > I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only patch. > > > > Confirmed. And

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-15 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 11:41 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:20:29PM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:08:02PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 14:57 +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > > FTR: then I still have a few ppc64 hunk

Re: Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-15 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 10:28 +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: > > For the 32-bit module code, I don't believe we would need to preserve > > the .init.plt section for livepatch's call to apply_relocate_add(), > > since relocations to init sections should've been a

Re: Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-15 Thread Miroslav Benes
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: > +++ Miroslav Benes [14/04/16 15:28 +0200]: > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: > > > > A second concern I have is that apply_relocate_add() relies on > > > sections like .stubs and .toc (for 64-bit) and .init.plt and .plt > > > sections (for 32-bit)

Re: Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-14 Thread Jessica Yu
+++ Miroslav Benes [14/04/16 15:28 +0200]: On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: +++ Miroslav Benes [13/04/16 15:01 +0200]: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM). > > > > It's unchanged since the version I pos

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-14 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:20:29PM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:08:02PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 14:57 +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > > > FTR: then I still have a few ppc64 hunks floating around to support > > > certain consistency > >

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-14 Thread Torsten Duwe
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:08:02PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 14:57 +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > FTR: then I still have a few ppc64 hunks floating around to support certain > > consistency > > models... > > OK. I'm not quite sure what you mean but post them and we

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the > > > > > exception that > > > > > I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only patch. > > Confirmed. And it still works on top of 4.6-rc3, even with the > additional tes

Re: Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-14 Thread Miroslav Benes
On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: > +++ Miroslav Benes [13/04/16 15:01 +0200]: > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > > > This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM). > > > > > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the except

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-14 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 14:57 +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 04:49:50PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 15:22 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > > > > This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-14 Thread Torsten Duwe
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 04:49:50PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 15:22 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > > > This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM). > > > > > > > > It's unchanged since the version I

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-13 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 15:22 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > > This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM). > > > > > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the exception > > > that > > > I've dropped the f

Re: Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-13 Thread Jessica Yu
+++ Miroslav Benes [13/04/16 15:01 +0200]: On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote: This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM). It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the exception that I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only p

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-13 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM). > > > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the exception > > that > > I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only patch. > > > > If there's n

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-13 Thread Miroslav Benes
On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote: > This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM). > > It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the exception that > I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only patch. > > If there's no further comme

[PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc

2016-04-13 Thread Michael Ellerman
This series adds live patching support for powerpc (ppc64le only ATM). It's unchanged since the version I posted on March 24, with the exception that I've dropped the first patch, which was a testing-only patch. If there's no further comments I'll put this in a topic branch in the next day or two