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

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Mon May 23 16:51:47 AEST 2022



Le 29/03/2022 à 13:22, Petr Mladek a écrit :
> On Mon 2022-03-28 08:26:48, 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: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
> 
> I am going to take it via livepatch/livepatch.git for 5.19. We are
> already in the middle of the merge window and this is not critical.
> 

I haven't seen it in linux-next.

Do you still plan to take it for 5.19 ?

Thanks
Christophe


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