Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Apr 25 2005 - 11:02:46 EST


On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:39:51PM +0900, Takashi Ikebe wrote:
> Kyle, thank you so much for your detailed information.
> If you design completely new software, your suggestion is very useful!
>
> Unfortunately, we carrier have very many exiting software and try to run
> on Linux.
> We need to seek the way which can apply to exiting software also...

ptrace can all do this, even with an existing kernel.
Your full patch is just a funky ptrace equivalent as far as I can see.


-Andi
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