On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Qing Zhao wrote:
>
> > On Oct 23, 2018, at 4:11 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> >>
> >> One question here, what’s the major benefit to prepare the patches
> >> manually?
> >
> > I could almost quote what you wrote below. It is a C file, easy to review
> > and maintain. You
Hi Qing,
Qing Zhao writes:
> thanks a lot for your detailed explanation of the source based live patch
> creation procedure.
> really interesting and helpful information.
>
> more questions and comments below:
>
>>>
>>> One question here, what’s the major benefit to prepare the patches
>>>
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 4:11 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
>>
>> One question here, what’s the major benefit to prepare the patches
>> manually?
>
> I could almost quote what you wrote below. It is a C file, easy to review
> and maintain. You have everything "under control". It allows to impleme
Hi,
Qing Zhao writes:
>>
>> thanks for the proposal. The others have already expressed some of my
>> worries and remarks, but I think it would be only right to write them
>> again. Especially since I am part of the team responsible for
>> implementation and maintenance of live patches here a
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Qing Zhao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the comments.
>
> >
> > thanks for the proposal. The others have already expressed some of my
> > worries and remarks, but I think it would be only right to write them
> > again. Especially since I am part of the team responsible for
Hi,
thanks for the comments.
>
> thanks for the proposal. The others have already expressed some of my
> worries and remarks, but I think it would be only right to write them
> again. Especially since I am part of the team responsible for
> implementation and maintenance of live patches here
On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Qing Zhao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After more detailed study of GCC’s IPA optimizations, further study of the
> current available kernel live patching schemes and
> other live-patching user’s request, I came up with the following initial
> proposal in GCC to mainly support live-pa
> > Is it because you generate something manually and want to limit that
> > work,
>
> I think that this is one of the reasons.
> and as mentioned in my writeup, the targeted users of this new functionality
> is for live-patching users who generate
> patches by hand.
Ok just means they need be
On 18 October 2018 19:34:52 CEST, Qing Zhao wrote:
>A. an option to control GCC's IPA optimizations to provide a safe
>compilation for live-patching purpose. At the same time, provides
>multiple-level control of patch code-size and run time performance
>tradeoff.
>
>-fease-live-patching={none|
