From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: jeyu@kernel.org, jikos@kernel.org, pmladek@suse.com,
lpechacek@suse.cz, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] livepatch: Introduce force sysfs attribute
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:11:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170811211131.n7mo4xsucteba7hz@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170810104815.14727-1-mbenes@suse.cz>
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:48:12PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> Now there is a sysfs attribute called "force", which provides two
> functionalities, "signal" and "force" (previously "unmark"). I haven't
> managed to come up with better names. Proposals are welcome. On the
> other hand I do not mind it much.
Now "force" has two meanings, which is a little confusing. What do you
think about just having two separate write-only sysfs flags?
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/livepatch/signal
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/livepatch/force
That way there's no ambiguity.
--
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-11 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-10 10:48 [PATCH v2 0/3] livepatch: Introduce force sysfs attribute Miroslav Benes
2017-08-10 10:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] livepatch: Add " Miroslav Benes
2017-08-11 21:13 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-08-14 14:03 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-08-16 13:15 ` Petr Mladek
2017-08-28 14:58 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-10-02 11:05 ` Petr Mladek
2017-08-10 10:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] livepatch: send a fake signal to all blocking tasks Miroslav Benes
2017-08-11 21:30 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-08-12 20:03 ` Jiri Kosina
2017-08-14 14:29 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-08-16 14:37 ` Petr Mladek
2017-08-10 10:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] livepatch: force transition process to finish Miroslav Benes
2017-08-30 7:24 ` Pavel Machek
2017-08-30 12:48 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-08-30 15:29 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-08-11 21:11 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2017-08-14 8:49 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] livepatch: Introduce force sysfs attribute Miroslav Benes
2017-08-16 14:50 ` Petr Mladek
2017-08-16 15:26 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-08-30 12:51 ` Miroslav Benes
2017-10-02 11:18 ` Petr Mladek
2017-08-16 13:31 ` Petr Mladek
2017-08-30 12:52 ` Miroslav Benes
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