From cba82dea30613346cf9a0532a41fc118bc3263af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miroslav Benes Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:45:06 +0100 Subject: livepatch: Send a fake signal periodically An administrator may send a fake signal to all remaining blocking tasks of a running transition by writing to /sys/kernel/livepatch//signal attribute. Let's do it automatically after 15 seconds. The timeout is chosen deliberately. It gives the tasks enough time to transition themselves. Theoretically, sending it once should be more than enough. However, every task must get outside of a patched function to be successfully transitioned. It could prove not to be simple and resending could be helpful in that case. A new workqueue job could be a cleaner solution to achieve it, but it could also introduce deadlocks and cause more headaches with synchronization and cancelling. [jkosina@suse.cz: removed added newline] Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/livepatch') diff --git a/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt b/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt index 71d7f286ec4d..407e0f03dc99 100644 --- a/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt +++ b/Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.txt @@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ patched state. This may be harmful to the system though. Writing 1 to the attribute sends a fake signal to all remaining blocking tasks. No proper signal is actually delivered (there is no data in signal pending structures). Tasks are interrupted or woken up, and forced to change -their patched state. +their patched state. Despite the sysfs attribute the fake signal is also sent +every 15 seconds automatically. Administrator can also affect a transition through /sys/kernel/livepatch//force attribute. Writing 1 there clears -- cgit v1.2.3