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post upstream v5.14 backports for kprobes and arm64

Joe Lawrence requested to merge joe.lawrence/centos-stream-9:bz-2069373 into main

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2069373

Livepatching on arm64 is currently under development upstream, specifically reliable stack unwinding for that arch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220117145608.6781-1-madvenka@linux.microsoft.com/

A list of patch-sets to support this upstream work includes:

The list mainly spans kprobes and arm64 stack unwind code. At this point the work doesn't not require massive amounts of backport conflict resolution.

Testing would require typical sanity checks for kernel subsystems making use of stack unwinding: ftrace, kprobes, and livepatch (for supported arches). Note that this does not imply any change in support for kpatch (or livepatch functionality) at this time.

Omitted-fix: 5a72345e6a78 ("powerpc: Fix STACKTRACE=n build") Already included via 48015b632f77 ("powerpc: Fix STACKTRACE=n build") Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence joe.lawrence@redhat.com

Edited by Joe Lawrence

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