Custom perf with custom kernel

perf setup

This post describes the necessary setup for Linux-perf. The setup machine is an Ubuntu VM. No custom kernel build.

Quick kernel upgrade with kexec

Upgrade kernel of a virtual machine in seconds. Normally kernel upgrade will require a reboot. As reboot will take minutes to complete, service downtime will be more. Here we'll see how upgrade kernel of a VM running Debian-9 in seconds.

kexec - A travel to the purgatory

A story about how I fixed the boot delay in an ARM64 system. This article walks through Linux reboot / kexec code path, a bit of kexec-tools source and importantly how kexec-tools injects its code in your boot path.

Custom build kernel for Raspberry Pi

How to build your own customized kernel for Raspberry Pi using yocto.

64-bit Mainline kernel on Raspberry Pi 3

Raspberry Pi foundation maintains customized Linux kernel for Raspberry Pi devices. Cross-compiling vanilla kernel to Raspberry Pi is bit challenging. But its worth giving a try as we can test latest kernel on it. This article is a step-by-step guide to build vanilla kernel for Raspberry Pi 3. It explains necessary device-tree files and kernel configurations related to Raspberry Pi.

KGDB/KDB over serial with Raspberry Pi