GSOC: Week 1 report

*Started working on CMA patch.
*I will do the patch on linux kernel version 4.4.11
*Crated a github repository called linux (https://github.com/rcodin/linux). I will push my work in "hacking" branch of this repository.
*Created a CMA area for our CMA patch.

Google Summer of Code 2016

Got selected for Google Summer of Code 2016 under fedora project. Looks like this summer will be exciting and I am looking forward to working on the project. My project is “Implementation of tinykdump“. The idea was originally proposed by “Cai Qian” from red hat. This tool is an improvement over fedora’s kdump tool(kexec-tools). My project has two main parts.

A linux kernel patch which will enable the tool to allocate memory in run time for capture kernel. Current crash dumping tool kdump allocate memory in boot time. Run time memory allocation will make the process more flexible.

The second half is the tool itself. This tool will have inbuilt functionality to generate a initramfs image form installed system. The initramfs will be generated for the only purpose of taking kernel crash dump. So, it will be very small and consume little memory.

Started blogging

I tried to maintain a blog before. But not able to for laziness. This another attempt to maintain a blog. I will be posting updates on my Google Summer of Code here. At least, I will maintain this for next three months.:)