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Re: dynamically replace the buggy function in kernel


On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:25 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an idea. We could find buggy functions in kernel and want to
> replace them dynamically.

This is commonly called hot-patching or live patching. It is not one on
the goals of systemtap, but it would be possible to modify kprobes or
jprobes to do what you suggest. We have discussed it. And is has been
discussed on the lkml (http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/23/35).

Martin



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