From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754161AbYEZJzG (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 05:55:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751771AbYEZJyt (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 05:54:49 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.186]:2786 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752059AbYEZJyk (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 05:54:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZXAU1alH1hE2aEOR5AP2qqmRi9GcGMfaPP+GwbVVuvak9Mn2SMgmWQ20yfQRIwBgbaGKFHgUWM3K3sWcmAWn5lBlCE5GeHz/E4wrxuJAYrYywoAhc53O/C3KCiIucg8GSyrB6/8vdLgFBtK6vdMLy+avtbjmvqhlMbM0+K19LeU= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:54:38 +0800 From: "Jike Song" To: "Bosko Radivojevic" Subject: Re: Inserting code from userspace to kernel space Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Did you try systemtap? It's available at: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ -- Thanks and regards, Jike On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking for a way to insert code from user space to the kernel > space, but without using kernel module. Actually, we are working on a > system that has to allow end user to change part of code (one or two > functions) that is executed from the kernel space. > > For now we have two different kernel modules, one exporting a function > which another module uses. Process of compiling kernel module is quite > ineligible for standard end user (along with the requirement to > support multi platform cross compiling) compared to just cross > compiling a simple code that doesn't use any libraries than libc. > > I know this sounds quite weird, but maybe there is a project that can help us ;) > > Sincerely, > Bosko > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >