Re: Live patching on ARM64

2021-03-18 Thread Singh, Balbir
On 15/1/21 11:33 pm, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:07:55PM -0600, Madhavan T. Venkataraman wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My name is Madhavan Venkataraman. > > Hi Madhavan, > >> Microsoft is very interested in Live Patching support for ARM64. >

Re: Live patching on ARM64

2021-01-26 Thread Madhavan T. Venkataraman
Hi all, Mark Rutland had sent me some ideas on what work is pending for ARM64 live patching. I sent some questions to Mark Rutland. I forgot to include everyone in the email. Sorry about that. I have reproduced my questions and his responses below. Please chime in with any comments: Thanks

Re: Live patching on ARM64

2021-01-20 Thread Julien Thierry
Hi, On 1/19/21 4:19 PM, Madhavan T. Venkataraman wrote: Sorry for the late reply. The last RFC for arm64 support in objtool is a bit old because it was preferable to split things into smaller series. I touched it much lately, so I'm picking it back up and will try to get a git branch into

Re: Live patching on ARM64

2021-01-19 Thread Madhavan T. Venkataraman
> Sorry for the late reply. The last RFC for arm64 support in objtool is a bit > old because it was preferable to split things into smaller series. > > I touched it much lately, so I'm picking it back up and will try to get a git > branch into shape on a recent mainline (a few things need

Re: Live patching on ARM64

2021-01-19 Thread Julien Thierry
is working on Live Patching for ARM64. Do let me know. Is there any work I can help with? Any areas that need investigation, any code that needs to be written, any work that needs to be reviewed, any testing that needs to done? You folks are probably super busy and would not mind an extra hand. One

Re: Live patching on ARM64

2021-01-17 Thread Madhavan T. Venkataraman
>> Providing ARM64 support in objtool. >> >> Torsten Duwe: >> Ftrace with regs. > > IIRC that's about right. I'm also trying to make arm64 patch-safe (more > on that below), and there's a long tail of work there for anyone > interested. > OK. >> I

Re: Live patching on ARM64

2021-01-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:33:47PM +, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:07:55PM -0600, Madhavan T. Venkataraman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My name is Madhavan Venkataraman. > > Hi Madhavan, > > > Microsoft is very interested in Live Patch

Re: Live patching on ARM64

2021-01-15 Thread Mark Rutland
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:07:55PM -0600, Madhavan T. Venkataraman wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Madhavan Venkataraman. Hi Madhavan, > Microsoft is very interested in Live Patching support for ARM64. > On behalf of Microsoft, I would like to contribute. > > I would

Re: Live patching on ARM64

2021-01-14 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
Hi Madhavan, I'd also recommend subscribing to the live-patching mailing list (Cc'ed). On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:07:55PM -0600, Madhavan T. Venkataraman wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Madhavan Venkataraman. > > Microsoft is very interested in Live Patching support for ARM