Re: Memory mapping

[Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com>]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:18:23 -0600, 
"Siders, Keith" <keith_siders@toshibatv.com> wrote:
>OK, now that I've spent a couple weeks looking at Linux memory management,
>can someone please help me straighten this out. First, I have a requirement
>to "unobtrusively" hot-patch instruction code ( and probably data also )
>segments in memory.

At the risk of stating the obvious, have you looked at the ptrace code
in arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/ptrace.c?  That already does all the work for
reading and writing code and data.