Patent ID: 7506203
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of extracting data of a buffer after a failure of an operating system in a computing environment, wherein said buffer is a region of a volatile memory in which said data is stored prior to said failure, said method comprising: registering an application prior to said failure, said registering comprising identifying a buffer in which data resides, said data stored in said buffer by said application, said application being executed under said operating system; reserving said buffer, said reserving maintaining said data residing in said buffer as unchanged from an initiation of a reboot of said operating system responsive to said failure to a completion of said reboot, said reboot being a fast reboot; generating an in-memory file during said reboot, said in-memory file pointing to said data residing in said buffer, and said in-memory file being stored in said volatile memory and not in a persistent storage medium; and extracting said data via an instruction operating on said in-memory file, said instruction executed by said application after said completion of said reboot.