[RFC PATCH 0/5] livepatch: add support on arm64

Jiri Kosina jkosina at suse.cz
Fri May 29 04:52:31 PDT 2015


On Thu, 28 May 2015, Li Bin wrote:

> This patchset propose a method for gcc -mfentry feature(profile
> before prologue) implementation for arm64, and propose the livepatch
> implementation for arm64 based on this feature.
> The gcc implementation about this feature will be post to the gcc 
> community soon.
> 
> With this -mfentry feature, the entry of each function like:
> 
> foo:
>     mov x9, x30 
>     bl __fentry__
>     mov x30, x9
>     [prologue]
>     ... 

Thanks a lot for working on arm64 support. I am putting this patchset on 
hold before gcc support is merged. Once that happens, and once the arm64 
parts are Acked by the arch maintainers, we could proceed with this patch.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



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