Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261672AbVDRFB4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:01:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261674AbVDRFB4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:01:56 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([69.30.125.51]:60809 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261672AbVDRFBy (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:01:54 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:01:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com To: Daniel Jacobowitz cc: Takashi Ikebe , Chris Wedgwood , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7 In-Reply-To: <1113800136.355.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <4263275A.2020405@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20050418040718.GA31163@taniwha.stupidest.org> <4263356D.9080007@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20050418044223.GB15002@nevyn.them.org> <1113800136.355.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 22 On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 00:42 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:19:57PM +0900, Takashi Ikebe wrote: > > GDB based approach seems not fit to our requirements. GDB(ptrace) based > > functions are basically need to be done when target process is stopping. > > In addition to that current PTRACE_PEEK/POKE* allows us to copy only a > > *word* size... > > While true, this is easily fixable. Indeed, look at the systr_pmem_read() and systr_pmem_write() functions: http://www.xmailserver.org/sysctr.html - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/