Live Update for Device Drivers
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As commodity operating systems become more reliable and fault-tolerant, the availability of a system will be determined not by when it crashes, but instead by when it must be shutdown and rebooted due to software maintenance [12, 21]. While many system components can be upgraded on-line, critical low-level components, such as device drivers and other kernel extensions, cannot be updated without rebooting the entire operating sys-
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