[kpatch] [RFC PATCH 0/2] kpatch: Support live patching on NMI handlers (issue #65)

[Masami Hiramatsu]

(2014/03/25 21:50), Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:25:04PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This series fixes issue #65, add support of live patching
>> on NMI handlers. To fix that, [1/2] adds the rollback
>> ftrace filter setting, and [2/2] adds inconsistency checker
>> for NMI handlers.
>>
>> The idea is very simple. Normal task switching and interrupts
>> are stopped by stop_machine, but NMI isn't. Thus if we found
>> any NMI on updating function while updating, the update should
>> fail and rollback it.
> 
> Masami,
> 
> This looks fantastic.  Please open a pull request on github and we'll
> give it a proper review.  I'm traveling today and Seth and I will be at
> a conference this week, so it may take us a little longer than normal to
> review.

Thanks, since I also need a time to prepare another github account,
I'll send a pull request in next week :)

Thank you,

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Masami HIRAMATSU
IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com