[PATCH v1 0/5] Implement livepatch on PPC32

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Nov 25 09:34:52 AEDT 2021


Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> writes:
> This series implements livepatch on PPC32.
>
> This is largely copied from what's done on PPC64.
>
> Christophe Leroy (5):
>   livepatch: Fix build failure on 32 bits processors
>   powerpc/ftrace: No need to read LR from stack in _mcount()
>   powerpc/ftrace: Add module_trampoline_target() for PPC32
>   powerpc/ftrace: Activate HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS on PPC32
>   powerpc/ftrace: Add support for livepatch to PPC32

I think we know patch 5 will need a respin because of the STRICT RWX vs
livepatching issue (https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/375).

So should I take patches 2,3,4 for now?

cheers


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