From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754011AbdKILO2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Nov 2017 06:14:28 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:52676 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752743AbdKILO1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Nov 2017 06:14:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 12:14:25 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Miroslav Benes , jpoimboe@redhat.com, jeyu@kernel.org, pmladek@suse.com, lpechacek@suse.cz, live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] livepatch: force transition process to finish Message-ID: <20171109111424.GA18787@amd> References: <20171031114853.841-1-mbenes@suse.cz> <20171031114853.841-3-mbenes@suse.cz> <20171106111105.GC24863@amd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon 2017-11-06 13:03:32, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Pavel Machek wrote: >=20 > > NAK. Admin does not have chance to decide if this is safe or not. >=20 > The process that is actually being suggested here (and towards which the= =20 > implementation is heading) is that in case of the convergence being stuck= =20 > for unknown reason, the admin of the system collects all the necessary=20 > data (namely stacktraces of the relevant tasks), and requests a clearance= =20 > from the livepatch distributor to force the transition. >=20 > But I agree with you that this might not be completely clear from the=20 > documentation, and should be made more explicit. Yes, please. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAloEOJAACgkQMOfwapXb+vKeGwCgrzwTh388yyECjUfCWhhxuGCk hNMAnjP94lRtfOFdnuVxfMjp+hWWb0FF =16Kr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--