Gnunify’11

I participate in Gnunify this year as well. Other that presenting my talk on “Setting Up Linux Kernel Debugging Environment”, I organized a programming contest as well with the PLUG members. I’ll be putting another post for that. My talk was scheduled at 3:45 PM on 11th Feb and I was planning to go post lunch … Read more

2010.. The year it was.

I sat down to write down the blog post on my 31st December’s Bike ride and while writing I retrospected the whole year and thought to pen it down. Last year was more important at personal front. I completed one year of my marriage with Kanika. I think first year of marriage would be very … Read more

FOSS.in’10 Experience

From the previous post you might know that I attended FOSS.in’10 and gave a talk on Ftrace in Fedora Mini-Conf. I had great time there. Meeting with friends. talks, technical discussions on the flight/ at the venue/ at dinner… Apart from all the keynotes and Fedora Mini-Conf, I attended following talks:- Operating System Caches in … Read more

Ftrace: Fedora Mini-Conf Session at FOSS.in’10

I gave a talk on Ftrace in Fedora Mini-Conf  at FOSS.in’10. The slides are at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Fedora_Ftrace.pdf I started my presentation with an example. I setup function_ftrace as  current_tracer and set the trace filter for all the ext3 functions and started the tracing: [sourcecode language=”text” gutter=”false”] $ echo function_ftrace > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer $ echo ext3* > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter … Read more

My New Machine

On 26th Nov’10 I got myself a new bike, Royal Enfield Thunderbird.. My Pulsar served me loayally for around 6 years. I drove it over 50K Kms.Lots of memories attached with my old bike. Its been some time since I booked it.I was keep postponing because of one reason or other. The bike is bit … Read more

SystemTap Article on LFY – Part1

I am writing kernel debugging article for Linux For You . I started with SystemTap and will writing on ftrace, kdb , kgdb crash etc. You can download the part-I of SytemTap article:- http://wp.neependra.net/kernel/Systemtap-I.pdf Part-II of SystemTap article is published this month and will be uploading the softcopy next month. update. Uploaded the Part-II as … Read more

Apue Quiz

I have created a quiz to test the Advance Unix Programming concepts of some of the MI trainees (http://kqinfotech.com/mentoring). quiz: http://wp.neependra.net/apue/apue.multiplechoice.quiz1 answers: http://wp.neependra.net/apue/apue.multiplechoice.quiz1.ans Some of the questions are just copy-paste from some university website.I don’t have reference now.