Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

On Wed 2016-02-03 20:11:05, Jessica Yu wrote:

This patchset removes livepatch's need for architecture-specific relocation
code by leveraging existing code in the module loader to perform
arch-dependent work. Specifically, instead of duplicating code and
re-implementing what the apply_relocate_add() function in the module loader
already does in livepatch's klp_write_module_reloc(), we reuse
apply_relocate_add() to write relocations. The hope is that this will make
livepatch more easily portable to other architectures and greatly reduce
the amount of arch-specific code required to port livepatch to a particular
architecture.

Jessica Yu (6):
  Elf: add livepatch-specific Elf constants
  module: s390: keep mod_arch_specific for livepatch modules
  samples: livepatch: mark as livepatch module
  Documentation: livepatch: outline Elf format and requirements for
    patch modules

For the four above patches:

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

  module: preserve Elf information for livepatch modules
  livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations

These two still need some tweaking.

I think that we are getting close. I like the way we go.
The documentation is excellent.

Thanks a lot for working on it.

Best Regards,
Petr