Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:00:09 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7 |
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:42:23 -0400 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> 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. There is even an interface > precedent on OpenBSD (and possibly other platforms as well).
Some platforms even support the necessary PTRADE_{READ,WRITE}DATA operations already, sparc is one such platform. - 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/
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