On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Petr Mladek wrote:
LivePatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely.
This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that
it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also
potential developers of the framework itself.
Thanks for starting the efforts; this is really needed if we want the
infrastructure to be used also by someone else than its developers :)
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+7. Limitations
+==============
Miroslav Benes, who is working on creating the actual patches we are
shipping for our kernels, should already have a decent cheat-sheet
regarding things that the patch author should be extra careful when
creating a patch (inlining and other gcc optimizations such as isra,
functions that use switch_to(), percpu, ...).
I am not really sure whether these should go to limitations, or maybe
they'd better be placed into a separate chapter, but I'd really like to
see it included.
Thanks,
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs