Concurrent programming in ERLANG (2nd ed.)
Concurrent programming in ERLANG (2nd ed.)
On-line Maintenance with On-the-fly Software Replacement
ICCDS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
Dymos: a dynamic modification system
Dymos: a dynamic modification system
Dynamic software updating
Lazy modular upgrades in persistent object stores
OOPSLA '03 Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programing, systems, languages, and applications
Mutatis mutandis: safe and predictable dynamic software updating
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Understanding source code evolution using abstract syntax tree matching
MSR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Providing dynamic update in an operating system
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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Modern operating systems are subject to a constant stream of patches and updates: to fix bugs, improve performance, or add features. Dynamic update offers significantly increased availability for operating systems, and enables administrators to avoid a difficult choice between the cost of down time and the risk of remaining unpatched. However, an operating system kernel is a unique environment for dynamic update; it is generally event-driven, multi-threaded, and involves a high degree of concurrency and asynchrony. It also provides a very restricted runtime environment. Existing dynamic update mechanisms are generally unsuited for use with operating-system code, either because they do not support concurrency [11, 13], require the system to be implemented in a specific language [1, 7, 9], or rely on a higher level of runtime support than is feasible within a traditional OS [5, 6].