Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] arm64: livepatch: Enable livepatch without sframe
Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Mon, 19 May 2025 17:40:33 +0100
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On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 09:53:36AM -0700, Song Liu wrote: > ARM folks, please share your thoughts on this work. To fully support > livepatching of kernel modules, we also need [1]. We hope we can > land this in the 6.16 kernel. > > Thanks, > Song > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/[email protected]/ I've had a quick look at [1], and IIUC that's a hard prerequisite for livepatching, as without it the kernel *will* crash if it attempts a late module relocation. Given that, I don't think that we can take patch 2 until Will's comments on [1] have been addressed, but I think that we could take patch 1 (with fixups) as per my other reply. Mark.