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From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@hofr.at>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Cc: Sandeep222 <sandeep.srikumar@honeywell.com>,
	     "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: store the contents of target’s RAM in frequent intervals
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0812060105410.2077@vlab.hofr.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493979E2.90707@vmware.com>


> Sandeep222 wrote:
> > Hi,
> >             I would like to know if there is any possibility for adding
> > functionality in GDB which could store the contents of target’s RAM in
> > frequent intervals into hard disk so that, when accidentally switched off or
> > shut down of an embedded target, we can resume the execution of the program
> > from where it earlier stopped (i.e previous save point). Conceptually It is
> > some what similar to the Hibernate function used in Windows xp, Service pack
> > 2. I was thinking of inducing this functionality for embedded targets in
> > particular.

This sounds like BLCR - Berkely Lab Checkpoint Restart -
http://ftg.lbl.gov/CheckpointRestart/CheckpointRestart.shtml
works very nice on embedded targets especially for errors that dont
reproduce well or take days/weeks to appear. This is implemented as
a set of loadable modules for 2.6 (up to 2.6.26 I think)

This solution is though limited to GNU/Linux - so I dont know if that fits
for you.

hofrat


      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-06 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-05  8:39 Sandeep222
2008-12-05 19:02 ` Michael Snyder
2008-12-06 10:20   ` Nicholas Mc Guire [this message]

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