Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:31:15 +0200 | From | Petr Mladek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] livepatch: Introduce force sysfs attribute |
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On Thu 2017-08-10 12:48:12, Miroslav Benes wrote: > Currently, livepatch gradually migrate the system from an unpatched to a > patched state (or vice versa). Each task drops its TIF_PATCH_PENDING > itself when crossing the kernel/user space boundary or it is cleared > using the stack checking approach. If there is a task which sleeps on a > patched function, the whole transition can get stuck indefinitely. > > TODO: > Now there is a sysfs attribute called "force", which provides two > functionalities, "signal" and "force" (previously "unmark"). I haven't > managed to come up with better names. Proposals are welcome. On the > other hand I do not mind it much.
What about calling the attribute?
transition-speedup transition-urge
In each case, I would make it more clear that the attribute is related to the transition attribute of each patch.
Best Regards, Petr
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