From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
jpoimboe@redhat.com, joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] livepatch: Add garbage collection for shadow variables
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 11:43:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2D4ZgWqB0E9viPy@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221026194122.11761-1-mpdesouza@suse.com>
On Wed 2022-10-26 16:41:18, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is the v2 of the livepatch shadow GC patches. The changes are minor since
> nobody asked for for big code changes.
>
> Changes from v1:
> * Reworked commit messages (Petr)
> * Added my SoB which was missing in some patches, or the ordering was wrong. (Josh)
> * Change __klp_shadow_get_or_use to __klp_shadow_get_or_add_locked and add a comment (Petr)
> * Add lockdep_assert_held on __klp_shadow_get_or_add_locked (Petr)
> about it's meaning (Petr)
> * CCing LKML (Josh)
>
> Some observations:
> * Petr has reviewed some of the patches that we created. I kept the Reviewed-by
> tags since he wrote the patches some time ago and now he reviewed them again
> on the ML.
> * There were questions about possible problems about using klp_shadow_types
> instead of using ids, but Petr already explained that internally it still uses
> the id to find the correct livepatch.
> * Regarding the possibility of multiple patches use the same ID, the problem
> already existed before. Petr suggested using a "stringified" version using
> name and id, but nobody has commented yet. I can implement such feature in a
> v3 if necessary.
>
> Marcos Paulo de Souza (2):
> livepatch/shadow: Introduce klp_shadow_type structure
> livepatch/shadow: Add garbage collection of shadow variables
>
> Petr Mladek (2):
> livepatch/shadow: Separate code to get or use pre-allocated shadow
> variable
> livepatch/shadow: Separate code removing all shadow variables for a
> given id
From my POV, the patchset is ready for pushing upstream.
Well, we need to get approval from kpatch-build users. Joe described
possible problems in replay for v3, see
https://lore.kernel.org/r/b5fc2891-2fb0-4aa7-01dd-861da22bb7ea@redhat.com
Best Regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-01 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-26 19:41 [PATCH v2 0/4] livepatch: Add garbage collection for shadow variables Marcos Paulo de Souza
2022-10-26 19:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] livepatch/shadow: Separate code to get or use pre-allocated shadow variable Marcos Paulo de Souza
2022-10-31 15:44 ` Petr Mladek
2022-10-26 19:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] livepatch/shadow: Separate code removing all shadow variables for a given id Marcos Paulo de Souza
2022-10-26 19:41 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] livepatch/shadow: Introduce klp_shadow_type structure Marcos Paulo de Souza
2022-10-31 16:02 ` Petr Mladek
2023-01-31 4:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-10-26 19:41 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] livepatch/shadow: Add garbage collection of shadow variables Marcos Paulo de Souza
2022-11-04 1:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-11-04 10:25 ` Petr Mladek
2022-11-08 1:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-11-08 9:14 ` Petr Mladek
2022-11-08 18:44 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-11-09 14:36 ` Petr Mladek
2023-02-04 23:59 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-02-17 16:22 ` Petr Mladek
2022-11-11 9:20 ` Nicolai Stange
2022-11-11 9:55 ` Petr Mladek
2022-11-13 18:51 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-01-17 15:01 ` Petr Mladek
2023-01-25 23:22 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-01-26 9:36 ` Petr Mladek
2023-02-04 19:34 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-01-31 4:40 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-01-31 14:23 ` Petr Mladek
2023-01-31 21:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-02-02 13:58 ` Petr Mladek
2023-02-01 0:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-02-02 10:14 ` Petr Mladek
2023-02-04 17:37 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-11-01 10:43 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2023-01-23 17:33 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] livepatch: Add garbage collection for " Marcos Paulo de Souza
2023-01-24 15:51 ` Petr Mladek
2023-01-26 16:35 ` Petr Mladek
2023-01-26 17:05 ` Joe Lawrence
2023-01-26 18:30 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-01-27 10:51 ` Petr Mladek
2023-01-27 11:08 ` Marcos Paulo de Souza
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