Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262671AbVDYP4M (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:56:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262664AbVDYP4I (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:56:08 -0400 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:53006 "EHLO colin2.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262671AbVDYPyE (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:54:04 -0400 Date: 25 Apr 2005 17:54:03 +0200 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:54:03 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Takashi Ikebe Cc: Kyle Moffett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7 Message-ID: <20050425155403.GC65287@muc.de> References: <4263275A.2020405@lab.ntt.co.jp> <426C51C4.9040902@lab.ntt.co.jp> <426CC8F7.8070905@lab.ntt.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426CC8F7.8070905@lab.ntt.co.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 731 Lines: 18 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 - 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/