Re: [Xen-devel] [livepatch-build-tools part2 4/6] livepatch-build: detect special section group sizes

2019-04-29 Thread Glenn Enright
On 30/04/19 2:14 AM, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > On 4/25/19 5:53 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:07:14PM +, Pawel Wieczorkiewicz wrote: >>> Hard-coding the special section group sizes is unreliable. Instead, >>> determine them dynamically by finding the related struct

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] livepatch-build-tools: Detect special section group sizes

2019-04-28 Thread Glenn Enright
and fixed in https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/pull/528 which says ... "Hard-coding the special section group sizes is unreliable. Instead, determine them dynamically by finding the related struct definitions in the DWARF metadata." Signed-off-by: Glenn Enright Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwa

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] livepatch-build-tools: Detect special section group sizes

2019-04-11 Thread Glenn Enright
and fixed in https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/pull/528 which says ... "Hard-coding the special section group sizes is unreliable. Instead, determine them dynamically by finding the related struct definitions in the DWARF metadata." Signed-off-by: Glenn Enright --- CC: Ross Lagerwall

Re: [Xen-devel] livepatch-build-tools: fix section mismatch

2019-04-11 Thread Glenn Enright
/1/19 3:28 PM, Glenn Enright wrote: I hit an issue generating a livepatch for a recent xsa. I saw the following lines from the create-diff-object.log ... /livepatch-build-tools/create-diff-object: ERROR: grant_table.o: kpatch_regenerate_special_section: 1162: group size mismatch f

[Xen-devel] livepatch-build-tools: fix section mismatch

2019-03-31 Thread Glenn Enright
I hit an issue generating a livepatch for a recent xsa. I saw the following lines from the create-diff-object.log ... /livepatch-build-tools/create-diff-object: ERROR: grant_table.o: kpatch_regenerate_special_section: 1162: group size mismatch for section .altinstructions This looks really s

[Xen-devel] xsa263 wont apply

2018-05-24 Thread Glenn Enright
Hi there I'm trying to apply xsa263 patches, specifically for 4.10. However they dont seem to on top of 4.10.1 release. I see they do apply cleanly to current 4.10 staging branch. Are staging trees for stable branches like 4.10 considered suitable/safe to rebase to for packaging purposes? ie