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2016-08-18Documentation: livepatch: add section about arch-specific codeJessica Yu
Document usage of arch-specific elf sections in livepatch as well as implementation of arch-specific code. [jkosina@suse.cz: fix wording as suggested by Petr Mladek] Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2016-05-17Merge branches 'for-4.7/core', 'for-4.7/livepatching-doc' and ↵Jiri Kosina
'for-4.7/livepatching-ppc64' into for-linus
2016-04-27livepatch: Add some basic livepatch documentationPetr Mladek
livepatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely. This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also potential developers of the framework itself. [jkosina@suse.cz: - incorporated feedback (grammar fixes) from Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> - s/LivePatch/livepatch in changelog as pointed out by Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - incorporated part of feedback (grammar fixes / reformulations) from Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> ] Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2016-04-01Documentation: livepatch: outline Elf format and requirements for patch modulesJessica Yu
Document livepatch module requirements and the special Elf constants patch modules use. Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>