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SubjectRe: Ksplice updates for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
Pavel Machek wrote:
> I did not say "unimportant patches". I said simple patches.
>
> Lets say something adds field to task_struct. Can you handle that?
>

By co-incidence, a similar discussion took place on another mailing list
last week, and the answer was that yes, Ksplice can handle it. From my
reading of the Ksplice paper (http://www.ksplice.com/paper), I think a
shadow structure is created to hold the new field. Code that accesses
the new field, which ipso facto is part of the patch, is modified to use
the shadow structure; the rest of the kernel remains unaltered.


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