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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2004
Applicants:
Jose German Rivera, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lillian Chou, Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jose German Rivera, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lillian Chou, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for logging the execution history of an operating system kernel by including an event description in a production image of the kernel. A command is received in order to enable an event description. The event description is enabled according to the command while the operating system kernel is executing. A description of an event is logged in an event log when the event occurs and when the event is enabled.