From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
To: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mhiramat@kernel.org, bristot@redhat.com, jbaron@akamai.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
mingo@kernel.org, namit@vmware.com, hpa@zytor.com,
luto@kernel.org, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] x86/ftrace: Use text_poke()
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:17:43 -0400
Message-ID: <7e9c7dd1-809e-f130-26a3-3d3328477437@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191015153120.GA21580@linux-8ccs>
On 10/15/19 11:31 AM, Jessica Yu wrote:
> +++ Joe Lawrence [15/10/19 11:06 -0400]:
>> On 10/15/19 10:13 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
>>> Yes, it does. klp_module_coming() calls module_disable_ro() on all
>>> patching modules which patch the coming module in order to call
>>> apply_relocate_add(). New (patching) code for a module can be relocated
>>> only when the relevant module is loaded.
>>
>> FWIW, would the LPC blue-sky2 model (ie, Steve's suggestion @
>> plumber's where livepatches only patch a single object and updates are
>> kept on disk to handle coming module updates as they are loaded)
>> eliminate those outstanding relocations and the need to perform this
>> late permission flipping?
>
> I wasn't at Plumbers sadly, was this idea documented/talked about in
> detail somewhere? (recording, slides, etherpad, etc?). What do you
> mean by updates are kept on disk? Maybe someone can explain it more
> in detail? :)
>
Livepatching folks -- I don't have the LPC summary link (etherpad?) that
Jiri put together. Does someone have that handy for Jessica?
Thanks,
-- Joe
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2019-10-15 14:13 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-15 15:06 ` Joe Lawrence
2019-10-15 15:31 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-15 22:17 ` Joe Lawrence [this message]
2019-10-15 22:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-16 7:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-16 10:15 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-21 15:05 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-20 16:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-21 8:35 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-21 16:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-22 10:09 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-22 21:42 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-28 9:28 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-28 15:00 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-28 15:40 ` Petr Mladek
2020-01-28 17:02 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-29 0:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2020-01-29 2:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-29 3:14 ` Jiri Kosina
2020-01-29 12:28 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-29 15:59 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-30 9:53 ` Petr Mladek
2020-01-30 14:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-31 7:17 ` Petr Mladek
2020-01-22 12:15 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-22 15:05 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-22 22:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-23 10:19 ` Martin Jambor
2019-10-16 7:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-16 10:20 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-16 13:29 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-18 13:03 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-18 13:40 ` Petr Mladek
2019-10-21 14:14 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-21 15:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 8:27 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-22 14:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-23 9:04 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-16 6:51 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-16 9:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-16 9:36 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-16 9:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-16 12:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-22 8:45 ` Miroslav Benes
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