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Pawel Wieczorkiewicz
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By default Livepatch enforces the following buildid-based dependency chain between livepatch modules: 1) first module depends on given hypervisor buildid 2) every consecutive module depends on previous module's buildid This way proper livepatch stack order is maintained and enforced. While it is important for production livepatches it limits agility and blocks usage of testing or debug livepatches. These kinds of livepatch modules are typically expected to be loaded at any time irrespective of current state of the modules stack. To enable testing and debug livepatches allow user dynamically ignore the inter-modules dependency. In this case only hypervisor buildid match is verified and enforced. To allow userland pass additional paremeters for livepatch actions add support for action flags. Each of the apply, revert, unload and revert action gets additional 32-bit parameter 'flags' where extra flags can be applied in a mask form. Initially only one flag '--nodeps' is added for the apply action. This flag modifies the default buildid dependency check as described above. The global sysctl interface input flag parameter is defined with a single corresponding flag macro: LIVEPATCH_ACTION_APPLY_NODEPS (1 << 0) The userland xen-livepatch tool is modified to support the '--nodeps' flag for apply and load commands. A general mechanism for specifying more flags in the future for apply and other action is however added. Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Andra-Irina Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Eslam Elnikety <elnikety@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Petre Eftime <epetre@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
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