Re: [PATCH] kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> This option only makes sense for source-based patch generation, so isn't 
> it a bit premature to make this change without proper source-based patch 
> tooling?

The reality is though that before the full-fledged patch tooling exists, 
people are actually already writing livepatches by hand, so this option is 
useful for them.

> Also the commit message needs an analysis of the performance impacts.

Agreed. Especially as it's expected (*) to be completely in the noise 
particularly for the kernel, it'd be good to have that documented in the 
changelog.

(*) actually measured already for some subset of the IPA optimizations

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs