[PATCH v5 05/15] livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 17:46:01 AEDT 2017


On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 19:42 -0600, 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>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes at suse.cz>
> Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>



More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list