System and methods for self-healing from operating system faults in kernel/supervisory mode

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8930764-B2
Application number	US-201213558585-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 26, 2012
Priority date	Jul 26, 2012
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and computing system are provided for self-healing from a fault in an operating system (OS) without crashing the OS. In one example, the method includes detecting, isolating, and repairing a faulty kernel code module without affecting the run-time operation of other, properly function, portions of the OS. In another example, the apparatus comprises a variety of modules, including, for instance, a kernel level fault detector and a kernel level fault manager, that are configured to execute steps of the method. In another example, the computing system includes an OS that has at least some modularized kernel code sections, and a self-healing code for detecting, isolating, and repairing failures occurring in one or more of the modularized kernel code sections without crashing the OS.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for self-healing from a fault in an operating system (OS), the method comprising:
detecting or predicting a fault in a kernel code of the OS, the kernel code comprising a plurality of kernel code modules;
determining that the fault is attributable to a faulty one of the plurality of kernel code modules;
isolating the faulty kernel code module from other ones of the plurality of kernel code modules; and
repairing the faulty kernel code module w…

Assignees

• Deshpande Bhalchandra Dattatray
• Futurewei Technologies Inc

Inventors

• Deshpande Bhalchandra Dattatray

Classifications

• G06F11/0793 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/0706

  Physics · mapped topic