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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)



> That being said, the real problem with the GKHI is that as Al said, it
> does expose internal kernel interfaces --- and the Linux kernel
> development community as a whole refuses to be bound by such interfaces,
> sometimes even during a stable kernel series.

I'm not sure that GKHI exposes any more interfaces than embedding a patch
directly into the kernel would.

It has the potential to to make patches easier to re-work for different
kernel versions, and to enable development maintence and fixing of the
patch to be done independently of a kernel build. And it also has the
potential of helping with co-existence. If for example the RAS community
could agree on a number of hooks (I'm thinking here of crash dump, trace,
dprobes and maybe KDB as well) then you'd probably find a good may on them
using then same hooks. The modifications to the kernel would be minimal and
the user would be left an easy means of installing a co-existing subset of
the offerings supported by hooks.

An example: DProbes is down to three hooks - that's three lines of code in
the kernel + three lines in ksyms.c

Patching DProbes onto any custom kernel is a doddle.


Richard Moore - RAS Project Lead - Linux Technology Centre (PISC).

http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux
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IBM UK Ltd, MP135 Galileo Centre, Hursley Park, Winchester, SO21 2JN, UK


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