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Merge branch 'for-5.1/atomic-replace' into for-linus
authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:56:59 +0000 (15:56 +0100)
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:56:59 +0000 (15:56 +0100)
commitf9d138145686b52b48ccb36557d6842076e2b9dd
tree95f5c8952a06616ddf4e7ed0288b82bfdb3aea72
parent7185a96981a2f8bb523dd87cad20a6b96c721ad5
parentfbb76d579dff4a2e332566dcd1d5979ac92bc34b
Merge branch 'for-5.1/atomic-replace' into for-linus

The atomic replace allows to create cumulative patches. They are useful when
you maintain many livepatches and want to remove one that is lower on the
stack. In addition it is very useful when more patches touch the same function
and there are dependencies between them.

It's also a feature some of the distros are using already to distribute
their patches.
kernel/livepatch/core.c
kernel/livepatch/transition.c