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

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed May 9 11:41:09 AEST 2018


Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com> writes:

> 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

We use "powerpc" as the prefix.

So I've used:

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


cheers


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