Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:49:38 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: changing internal kernel system mechanism in runtime by a module patch |
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On Nov 16 2006 20:29, Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:19:50PM +0200, Yitzchak Eidus wrote: >> is it possible to replace linux kernel internal functions such as >> schdule () to lets say my_schdule () in a run time with a module >> patch???
Nothing is impossible.
>> (so that every call in the kernel to schdule() will go to my_schdule()... ) >> ??? >> >> i am talking about a clean/standard way to do such thing
Not clean. Not standard. And it sounds evil too.
>> (without overwrite the mem address of the function and replace it in a >> dirty way...) > >No.
You would have to patch _every_ callsite. That's too tedious to be useful.
(Hey there is SMP alternatives which sounds like it did just that - anyone?)
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