Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Dec 2018 14:34:19 -0500 | From | Joe Lawrence <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v14 06/11] livepatch: Use lists to manage patches, objects and functions |
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:44:26AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > From: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> > > Currently klp_patch contains a pointer to a statically allocated array of > struct klp_object and struct klp_objects contains a pointer to a statically > allocated array of klp_func. In order to allow for the dynamic allocation > of objects and functions, link klp_patch, klp_object, and klp_func together > via linked lists. This allows us to more easily allocate new objects and > functions, while having the iterator be a simple linked list walk. > > The static structures are added to the lists early. It allows to add > the dynamically allocated objects before klp_init_object() and > klp_init_func() calls. Therefore it reduces the further changes > to the code. > > This patch does not change the existing behavior. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> > [pmladek@suse.com: Initialize lists before init calls] > Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> > Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> > Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> > Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> > Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> > ---
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
-- Joe
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