Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Periodic fake signal

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Jan 16 2019 - 17:12:47 EST


On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 05:45:05PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> I somehow forgot about this patch set. The discussion about v1 was
> inconclusive, so I'm sending it again with changes according to the
> feedback I got. I still think it is useful, so please consider.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - timeout changed to 15 seconds (Josh)
> - make it wait for 15 seconds, no more, no less (Josh)
> - the message in klp_send_signals() is printed only once per transition
> (Josh)
> - the counter is zeroed in klp_start_transition(), so that even
> klp_reverse_transition() starts correctly (Petr)
>
> Miroslav Benes (2):
> livepatch: Send a fake signal periodically
> livepatch: Remove signal sysfs attribute
>
> .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch | 12 ---
> Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt | 15 ++-
> kernel/livepatch/core.c | 32 -------
> kernel/livepatch/transition.c | 93 +++++++++++--------
> kernel/livepatch/transition.h | 1 -
> 5 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Josh