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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt | 18 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch index 3bb9d5bc1ce3..dac7e1e62a8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch @@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ Description: signal pending structures). Tasks are interrupted or woken up, and forced to change their patched state. +What: /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/force +Date: Nov 2017 +KernelVersion: 4.15.0 +Contact: live-patching@vger.kernel.org +Description: + A writable attribute that allows administrator to affect the + course of an existing transition. Writing 1 clears + TIF_PATCH_PENDING flag of all tasks and thus forces the tasks to + the patched or unpatched state. Administrator should not + use this feature without a clearance from a patch + distributor. Removal (rmmod) of patch modules is permanently + disabled when the feature is used. See + Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt for more information. + What: /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/<object> Date: Nov 2014 KernelVersion: 3.19.0 diff --git a/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt b/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt index 9bcdef277a36..896ba8941702 100644 --- a/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt +++ b/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt @@ -183,6 +183,20 @@ tasks. No proper signal is actually delivered (there is no data in signal pending structures). Tasks are interrupted or woken up, and forced to change their patched state. +Administrator can also affect a transition through +/sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/force attribute. Writing 1 there clears +TIF_PATCH_PENDING flag of all tasks and thus forces the tasks to the patched +state. Important note! The force attribute is intended for cases when the +transition gets stuck for a long time because of a blocking task. Administrator +is expected to collect all necessary data (namely stack traces of such blocking +tasks) and request a clearance from a patch distributor to force the transition. +Unauthorized usage may cause harm to the system. It depends on the nature of the +patch, which functions are (un)patched, and which functions the blocking tasks +are sleeping in (/proc/<pid>/stack may help here). Removal (rmmod) of patch +modules is permanently disabled when the force feature is used. It cannot be +guaranteed there is no task sleeping in such module. It implies unbounded +reference count if a patch module is disabled and enabled in a loop. + 3.1 Adding consistency model support to new architectures --------------------------------------------------------- @@ -439,8 +453,8 @@ Information about the registered patches can be found under /sys/kernel/livepatch. The patches could be enabled and disabled by writing there. -/sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/signal attribute allows administrator to affect a -patching operation. +/sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/signal and /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/force +attributes allow administrator to affect a patching operation. See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch for more details. |