linux-kernel - [RFC 06/16] kgr: add Documentation

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:30:39 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	jirislaby@...il.com, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>,
	Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Udo Seidel <udoseidel@....de>
Subject: [RFC 06/16] kgr: add Documentation

This is a text provided by Udo and polished.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc: Udo Seidel <udoseidel@....de>
---
 Documentation/kgr.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/kgr.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kgr.txt b/Documentation/kgr.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5b62415641cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/kgr.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Live Kernel Patching with kGraft
+--------------------------------
+
+Written by Udo Seidel <udoseidel at gmx dot de>
+Based on the Blog entry by Vojtech Pavlik
+
+April 2014
+
+kGraft's developement was started by the SUSE Labs. kGraft builds on
+technologies and ideas that are already present in the kernel: ftrace
+and its mcount-based reserved space in function headers, the
+INT3/IPI-NMI patching also used in jumplabels, and RCU-like update of
+code that does not require stopping the kernel. For more information
+about ftrace please checkout the Documentation shipped with the kernel
+or search for howtos and explanations on the Internet.
+
+A kGraft patch is a kernel module and fully relies on the in-kernel
+module loader to link the new code with the kernel.  Thanks to all
+that, the design can be nicely minimalistic.
+
+While kGraft is, by choice, limited to replacing whole functions and
+constants they reference, this does not limit the set of code patches
+that can be applied significantly.  kGraft offers tools to assist in
+creating the live patch modules, identifying which functions need to
+be replaced based on a patch, and creating the patch module source
+code. They are located in /tools/kgraft/.
-- 
1.9.2

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