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.
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