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From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@amazon.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, broonie@kernel.org,
	madvenka@linux.microsoft.com, duwe@lst.de,
	sjitindarsingh@gmail.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] arm64: implement live patching
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:08:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YL4aZCMmouLCQlJr@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210607102058.GB97489@C02TD0UTHF1T.local>

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 11:20:58AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 04:59:30PM -0700, Suraj Jitindar Singh wrote:
> > It's my understanding that the two pieces of work required to enable live
> > patching on arm are in flight upstream;
> > - Reliable stack traces as implemented by Madhavan T. Venkataraman [1]
> > - Objtool as implemented by Julien Thierry [2]
> 
> We also need to rework the arm64 patching code to not rely on any code
> which may itself be patched. Currently there's a reasonable amount of
> patching code that can either be patched directly, or can be
> instrumented by code that can be patched.
> 
> I have some WIP patches for that at:
> 
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arm64/patching/rework
> 
> ... but there's still a lot to do, and it's not clear to me if there's
> other stuff we need to rework to make patch-safe.
> 
> Do we have any infrastructure for testing LIVEPATCH?
> 

Hi Mark,

If you're looking for a high level sanity check, there are livepatching
integration selftests in tools/testing/selftests/livepatch.  Let me know
if you have any questions about those.

Regards,

-- Joe


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-07 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-04 23:59 [RFC PATCH 1/1] arm64: implement live patching Suraj Jitindar Singh
2021-06-07 10:20 ` Mark Rutland
2021-06-07 13:08   ` Joe Lawrence [this message]
2021-06-09  0:32   ` Suraj Jitindar Singh
2021-06-09 23:57     ` Suraj Jitindar Singh
2021-06-07 17:01 ` Mark Brown
2021-06-09  0:12   ` Suraj Jitindar Singh
2021-06-17  9:29 ` nobuta.keiya
2021-06-17 18:32   ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman

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