From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751874AbcDONVd (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:21:33 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:36159 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751649AbcDONVb (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:21:31 -0400 Message-ID: <1460726483.4754.0.camel@ellerman.id.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Live patching for powerpc From: Michael Ellerman To: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Torsten Duwe , Jiri Kosina , Miroslav Benes , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, bsingharora@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, pmladek@suse.com, jeyu@redhat.com, live-patching@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 23:21:23 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20160415125939.lrft3nawlzuozjkb@treble> References: <1460552003-15409-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> <1460616590.2754.6.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20160414125735.GA20296@lst.de> <1460639282.21066.5.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20160414152029.GA24525@lst.de> <20160414164122.7ubcqqm43advdscb@treble> <1460719369.22415.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20160415125939.lrft3nawlzuozjkb@treble> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5-1ubuntu3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 07:59 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:22:49PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 11:41 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:20:29PM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:08:02PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 14:57 +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > > > > FTR: then I still have a few ppc64 hunks floating around to support certain consistency > > > > > > models... > > > > > > > > > > OK. I'm not quite sure what you mean but post them and we'll see I guess :) > > > > > > > > It's *roughly* the ppc64 equivalent of Josh Poimboeuf's Mar 25 > > > > > [RFC PATCH v1.9 14/14] livepatch: update task universe when exiting kernel > > > > which only considers x86. > > > > > > > > It's forward ported from an earlier code base; there's some glue missing, > > > > but here it is, for reference. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe > > > > > > Hi Torsten, > > > > > > Thanks for sharing. This is quite fortuitous as Miroslav just today > > > mentioned to me that we would need something like this. If you don't > > > mind, I may pull this patch or some variant of it into v2 of the > > > consistency model. > > > > Well please wait for me to review & ack it before you pull it into anything > > permanent. > > > > At a quick glance it seems OK but I'd probably do it a little differently. I'll > > try and have a closer look next week. > > Sure, no problem. The consistency model patches are still in > development so they won't be merged anytime soon. And we wouldn't merge > any powerpc code without maintainer acks anyway. I'm just glad you guys > are looking at it so I don't have to butcher it ;-) I'm paid to butcher it ;) cheers