[PATCH v5 0/9] ftrace with regs + live patching for ppc64 LE (ABI v2)

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jan 20 17:03:23 AEDT 2016


On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 15:17 +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Fri 2015-12-04 15:45:29, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> > Changes since v4:
> >   * change comment style in entry_64.S to C89
> >     (nobody is using assembler syntax comments there).
> >   * the bool function restore_r2 shouldn't return 2,
> >     that's a little confusing.
> >   * Test whether the compiler supports -mprofile-kernel
> >     and only then define CC_USING_MPROFILE_KERNEL
> >   * also make the return value of klp_check_compiler_support
> >     depend on that.
>
> Note that there is still needed the extra patch from
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2093867/focus=2099603
> to get the livepatching working.

Sorry which extra patch?

> Both ftrace with regs and live patching works for me with this patch
> set and the extra patch. So. for the whole patchset:
>
> Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>

Can you give me some more info on how you're testing it? What config options,
toolchain etc.?

For me the series doesn't even boot, even with livepatching disabled.

cheers



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