[PATCH v3] ppc64le livepatch: implement reliable stacktrace for newer consistency models

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe at redhat.com
Wed May 9 10:14:32 AEST 2018


On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 10:38:32AM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:08 -0500
> Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > The subject doesn't actively describe what the patch does, maybe
> > change it to something like:
> > 
> >   powerpc: Add support for HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
> > 
> > or maybe
> > 
> >   powerpc: Add support for livepatch consistency model
> 
> Maybe $SUBJECT? You're absolutely right, the old subject was just a
> leftover of my original attempt to just set the flag, before Miroslav
> corrected me. I just kept on copying it without a second thought. Thanks
> for noting.

Generally we refer to it as "the consistency model".  So I would
propose a minor edit:

  ppc64le/livepatch: Implement reliable stack tracing for the consistency model

> > Otherwise it looks great to me.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com>
> > 
> Thanks.
> 
> 	Torsten
> 

-- 
Josh


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