From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, kpatch@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kernel Live Patching
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 06:31:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141107123154.GA4071@treble.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141106202423.GB2266@suse.cz>
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:24:23PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:58:57AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 07:51:57PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > I don't think this specific example was generated.
> > >
> > > I also don't think including the whole kpatch automation into the kernel
> > > tree is a viable development model for it. (Same would apply for kGraft
> > > automation.)
> >
> > Why? We (IMHO incorrectly) used the argument of tight coupling to put
> > perf into the kernel tree. Generating kernel live patches is way more
> > integrated that it absolutely has to go into the tree to be able to do
> > proper development on it in an integrated fashion.
>
> One reason is that there are currently at least two generators using
> very different methods of generation (in addition to the option of doing
> the patch module by hand), and neither of them are currently in a state
> where they would be ready for inclusion into the kernel (although the
> kpatch one is clearly closer to that).
What generator does kGraft have? Is that the one that generates the
source patch, or is there one that generates a binary patch module?
--
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-07 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-06 14:39 [PATCH 0/2] Kernel Live Patching Seth Jennings
2014-11-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH Seth Jennings
2014-11-09 20:19 ` Greg KH
2014-11-11 14:54 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] kernel: add support for live patching Seth Jennings
2014-11-06 15:11 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-11-06 16:20 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-06 16:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-06 18:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-06 22:20 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-11-07 12:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-07 13:13 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-11-07 13:22 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-07 14:57 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-06 15:51 ` Jiri Slaby
2014-11-06 16:57 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-06 17:12 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-07 18:21 ` Petr Mladek
2014-11-07 20:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-30 12:23 ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-01 16:49 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-06 20:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-11-06 20:19 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-07 17:13 ` module notifier: was " Petr Mladek
2014-11-07 18:07 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-07 18:40 ` Petr Mladek
2014-11-07 18:55 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-11 19:40 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-11 22:17 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-11-11 22:48 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-07 17:39 ` more patches for the same func: " Petr Mladek
2014-11-07 21:54 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-07 19:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-07 19:42 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-07 19:52 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-10 10:08 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-11-10 17:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-13 10:16 ` Miroslav Benes
2014-11-13 14:38 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-13 17:12 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-14 13:30 ` Miroslav Benes
2014-11-14 14:52 ` Petr Mladek
2014-11-06 18:44 ` [PATCH 0/2] Kernel Live Patching Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-06 18:51 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-06 18:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-06 19:34 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-06 19:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-11-06 20:02 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-07 7:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-07 7:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-06 20:24 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-07 7:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-07 13:11 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-07 14:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-07 15:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-07 21:27 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-08 3:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-08 8:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-10 17:09 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-11 9:05 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-11 17:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-11 1:24 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-11 10:26 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-12 17:33 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-12 21:47 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-13 15:56 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-13 16:38 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-18 12:47 ` Petr Mladek
2014-11-18 18:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-07 12:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2014-11-07 12:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-11-07 13:06 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-09 20:16 ` Greg KH
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