Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <20060421055142.11025.qmail at mx1.aruba.it> you wrote: > >> No, I have a cramfs on flash and the kernel uses it directly from flash, >> extracting what it needs to execute. I'm not using initrd then, I have to >> update in situ, while running. >> > > This cannot be done reliably. You have to make the file system idle, > i. e. unmount it. > I agree, even if you make the executables involved in the update statically linked (so library dependencies are removed), kernel can choose to reload any running executables page and it would end up with a bogus page in memory. This is particularly true if you do not have swap which you could try to lock executable in swap. Also, you cannot reliably depend on file system cache to contain all the executable code you would need to complete update either.
Regards, Tolunay
