Re: LKPK (Live Kernel Patching Kit)

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:47:52 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Chad C Giffin wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
> :
> :Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 19:46:34 -0400
> :Chad C Giffin writes:
>
> :I think you are talking about something else. I even did not try to think
> :about anything like this as it is _extermely_ complicated.
>
> So is going through the kernel and catching all references to variables,
> functions and such :-)

If we had linker support for this, however, we might end up
with a patchable kernel. To do this we'd have to store all
needed information in some kernel data section.

While this might increase the size of the kernel by a factor
2, it might be worth it for high-availability sites to compile
their kernel with CONFIG_LIVE_UPDATE...

> :As I said I have it alrady working for the off-by-one bug, it looks really
> :cool.
>
> I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).

:-)

Rik.
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