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Jiri Kosina be69f70e63 Merge branches 'for-4.7/core', 'for-4.7/livepatching-doc' and 'for-4.7/livepatching-ppc64' into for-linus 2016-05-17 12:06:35 +02:00
Petr Mladek 5e4e38446a livepatch: Add some basic livepatch documentation
livepatch framework deserves some documentation, definitely.
This is an attempt to provide some basic info. I hope that
it will be useful for both LivePatch producers and also
potential developers of the framework itself.

[jkosina@suse.cz:
 - incorporated feedback (grammar fixes) from
   Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
 - s/LivePatch/livepatch in changelog as pointed out by
   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
 - incorporated part of feedback (grammar fixes / reformulations) from
   Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
]

Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2016-04-27 22:01:32 +02:00
Jessica Yu 3b812ecce7 Documentation: livepatch: outline Elf format and requirements for patch modules
Document livepatch module requirements and the special Elf constants patch
modules use.

Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2016-04-01 15:00:12 +02:00