op-kernel-dev - Development kernel branch for OpenPOWER systems

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*	livepatch: Remove immediate feature	Miroslav Benes	2018-01-11	1	-15/+0
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Immediate flag has been used to disable per-task consistency and patch all tasks immediately. It could be useful if the patch doesn't change any function or data semantics. However, it causes problems on its own. The consistency problem is currently broken with respect to immediate patches. func a patches 1i 2i 3 When the patch 3 is applied, only 2i function is checked (by stack checking facility). There might be a task sleeping in 1i though. Such task is migrated to 3, because we do not check 1i in klp_check_stack_func() at all. Coming atomic replace feature would be easier to implement and more reliable without immediate. Thus, remove immediate feature completely and save us from the problems. Note that force feature has the similar problem. However it is considered as a last resort. If used, administrator should not apply any new live patches and should plan for reboot into an updated kernel. The architectures would now need to provide HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE to fully support livepatch. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
*	livepatch: add (un)patch callbacks	Joe Lawrence	2017-10-19	1	-0/+234
	Provide livepatch modules a klp_object (un)patching notification mechanism. Pre and post-(un)patch callbacks allow livepatch modules to setup or synchronize changes that would be difficult to support in only patched-or-unpatched code contexts. Callbacks can be registered for target module or vmlinux klp_objects, but each implementation is klp_object specific. - Pre-(un)patch callbacks run before any (un)patching transition starts. - Post-(un)patch callbacks run once an object has been (un)patched and the klp_patch fully transitioned to its target state. Example use cases include modification of global data and registration of newly available services/handlers. See Documentation/livepatch/callbacks.txt for details and samples/livepatch/ for examples. Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>