Hi,
I will be writing a kernel loadable module which will save the kernel
state. It will not be done form userland. I am working on this project
called kernel state visualization, where I need to save the kernel state
and then parse it to give information like dentries, inodes, etc in text
or HTML pages.
Thanks for pointing me to swsup2. I will have a look at it.
regards,
Sabyasachi Pradhan
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 19:58:27 -0500, Sabyasachi Pradhan wrote:
> > I need to save the current state of the kernel. For this I am
> > reading the /proc/kcore file. As my understanding goes /proc/kcore gives
> > the whole memory of the system and is dynamic. Is it possible to use a
> > kernel lock mechanism like BKL so that when reading from this file, the
> > file doesnt change ? Any comments on this approach or any new suggestions
> > will be appretiated.
>
> You are joking, right? You want to save kernel state from userland?
>
> Anyway, why do you want to save the state?
>
> There is already code, that saves kernel state -- swsusp2. Have you looked at
> it?
>
> --
> Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
>
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