Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7

Takashi Ikebe
2005-04-25T10:40:23Z

Kyle, thank you so much for your detailed information.
If you design completely new software, your suggestion is very useful!

Unfortunately, we carrier have very many exiting software and try to run
on Linux.
We need to seek the way which can apply to exiting software also...

Kyle Moffett wrote:

> If you want that exact functionality, do this:
>
> At program start, spawn a new thread:
> 1) Open a UNIX socket (/var/run/someapp_live_patch.sock)
> 2) poll() that socket for a connection.
> 3) When you get a connection, do your own security checks
> 4) If it's ok, then map the specified file into memory
> 5) Read a table of crap to patch from the file
> 6) Do the patching, being careful to avoid the millions of
> races involved for each CPU, *especially* regarding the
> separate icache and dcache on CPUs like PPC and such.
> 7) Go back to step 2
>
> If you want equivalent functionality but much safer and not CPU
> dependent and full of hand-coded assembly:
>
> 1) open(), mmap(), and mlock() the file (/var/lib/someapp/data)
> 2) Spawn normal operation threads
> 3) Spawn a new hot-patch thread:
> 1) Open a UNIX socket (/var/run/someapp_live_patch.sock)
> 2) poll() that socket for a connection.
> 3) When you get one, coordinate with the new process as it
> attaches itself to /var/lib/someapp/data
> 4) Handle shared locking of parts of /var/lib/someapp/data
> 5) Send it your listen() file-descriptors over the socket.
> 6) Wait for the other process to signal it's ready.
> 7) Stop accepting new connections on the socket.
> 8) Send file-descriptors for current connections
> 9) Cleanup and quit
>
> When live-patching:
> 1) connect to the socket /var/run/someapp_live_patch.sock
> 2) open(), mmap() and mlock() /var/lib/someapp/data
> 3) Coordinate with the other process via the socket
> 4) Receive the listen() file-descriptors over the socket.
> 5) Set up the shared data locking
> 6) Spawn normal operation threads
> 7) Signal readiness
> 8) Receive file-descriptors for current connections
> 9) Spawn threads for them too.
> 10) Spawn a new hot-patch thread as above
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle Moffett
>
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