Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:10:25 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7 |
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:25:06AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > The call switching folks have been doing live patching at least > > since I worked on it, over 25 years ago. This is not just > > marketing. > > That still doesn't explain *why* live patching is needed.
The more optimization a modern compiler does the less practical a patching approach seems for anything but very trivial fixes.
I'd try a shared library based approach for on the fly updates.
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