From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Yitzchak Eidus <ieidus@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: changing internal kernel system mechanism in runtime by a module patch
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:47:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061117064732.GC3735@rhun.zurich.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7aeb7c60611161119h3e198e96va07d36d5b2dd6390@mail.gmail.com>
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??? (so that every call in the kernel to schdule() will go to
> my_schdule()... ) ???
Not in Linux.
> i am talking about a clean/standard way to do such thing
> (without overwrite the mem address of the function and replace it in a
> dirty way...)
k42 supports "dynamic hot-swap" and there's been some work done to
bring it into Linux, see e.g.,
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/k42-discussion/2006-October/001615.html.
Cheers,
Muli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-17 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-16 19:19 changing internal kernel system mechanism in runtime by a module patch Yitzchak Eidus
2006-11-16 19:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-16 21:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-16 21:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-17 6:47 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2006-11-17 6:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-17 7:06 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
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