[PATCH] livepatch: Remove klp_arch_set_pc() and asm/livepatch.h

Miroslav Benes mbenes at suse.cz
Tue Mar 29 21:46:19 AEDT 2022


On Mon, 28 Mar 2022, Christophe Leroy wrote:

> All three versions of klp_arch_set_pc() do exactly the same: they
> call ftrace_instruction_pointer_set().
> 
> Call ftrace_instruction_pointer_set() directly and remove
> klp_arch_set_pc().
> 
> As klp_arch_set_pc() was the only thing remaining in asm/livepatch.h
> on x86 and s390, remove asm/livepatch.h
> 
> livepatch.h remains on powerpc but its content is exclusively used
> by powerpc specific code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>

Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes at suse.cz>

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