Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:25:07 +0100 (CET) | From | Miroslav Benes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] livepatch: Allow to unpatch only functions of the given type |
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Petr Mladek wrote:
> From: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> > > We are going to add a feature called atomic replace. It will allow to > create a patch that would replace all already registered patches. > For this, we will need to dynamically create funcs and objects > for functions that are no longer patched. > > The dynamically allocated objects will not longer be needed once > the patch is applied. > > This patch allows to unpatch functions of the given type. It might > cause that the obj->patched flag is true even when some listed > functions are not longer patched. This is fine as long as the > unpatched funcs' structures are removed right after. It will > be the case. Anyway, it is safe. In the worst case, it will > not be possible to enable the disabled functions. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> > [pmladek@suse.com: Split and modified to use the generic ftype] > 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: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Miroslav
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