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livepatch: doc: remove the limitation for schedule() patching

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The Limitations section of the documentation describes the impossibility
to livepatch anything that is inlined to __schedule() function. This had
been true till 4.9 kernel came. Thanks to commit 0100301bfd
("sched/x86: Rewrite the switch_to() code") from Brian Gerst there is
__switch_to_asm function now (implemented in assembly) called properly
from context_switch(). RIP is thus saved on the stack and a task would
return to proper version of __schedule() et al. functions.

Of course __switch_to_asm() is not patchable for the reason described in
the section. But there is no __fentry__ call and I cannot imagine a
reason to do it anyway.

Therefore, remove the paragraphs from the section.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Miroslav Benes 2017-01-06 15:00:45 +01:00 committed by Jiri Kosina
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@ -329,25 +329,6 @@ The current Livepatch implementation has several limitations:
by "notrace".
+ Anything inlined into __schedule() can not be patched.
The switch_to macro is inlined into __schedule(). It switches the
context between two processes in the middle of the macro. It does
not save RIP in x86_64 version (contrary to 32-bit version). Instead,
the currently used __schedule()/switch_to() handles both processes.
Now, let's have two different tasks. One calls the original
__schedule(), its registers are stored in a defined order and it
goes to sleep in the switch_to macro and some other task is restored
using the original __schedule(). Then there is the second task which
calls patched__schedule(), it goes to sleep there and the first task
is picked by the patched__schedule(). Its RSP is restored and now
the registers should be restored as well. But the order is different
in the new patched__schedule(), so...
There is work in progress to remove this limitation.
+ Livepatch modules can not be removed.
The current implementation just redirects the functions at the very