[PATCH v3 05/15] livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag

Miroslav Benes mbenes at suse.cz
Thu Dec 22 01:30:36 AEDT 2016


On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> Add the TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag to enable the new livepatch
> per-task consistency model for powerpc.  The bit getting set indicates
> the thread has a pending patch which needs to be applied when the thread
> exits the kernel.
> 
> The bit is included in the _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK macro so that
> do_notify_resume() and klp_update_patch_state() get called when the bit
> is set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com>

Looks good to me. You can add my

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes at suse.cz>

Miroslav


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