An estimated 185 people registered for the ELISA Summit, which took place virtually on September 7-8 to gather Linux community members and attendees from around the world. The event, which featured 15 sessions and 20 speakers, was open to anyone involved or interested in defining, using, or learning about common elements, processes, and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Members of the ELISA Project community presented best practices and overviews on emerging trends and hot topics to using open source software in safety-critical applications and detailed working group updates.
We’ll be featuring event videos in blogs each week. Today, we focus on a session presented by Shefali Sharma, Senior year CSE Student, India and LFX Mentee at ELISA Medical Devices WG on the topic “Kernel Tracing.” In this video, Shefali presents the work she did during her ELISA Mentorship Program including:
- Understanding system resources necessary to build and run a workload is important.
- The highlights of theLinux tracing and strace can be used to discover the system resources in use by a workload.
- The completeness of the system usage information depends on the completeness of coverage of a workload.
- Performance and security of the operating system can be analyzed with the help of tools like ftrace, perf, stress-ng, paxtest.
- Once we discover and understand the workload needs, we can focus on them to avoid regressions and use it to evaluate safety considerations.
In addition to these topics, she also explains about her mentorship experience with ELISA Medical Working Group. Watch the video below or check out the presentation materials here.
If you’re interested in becoming a ELISA Project or Linux Foundation mentee, you can review mentorships and all here: https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/mentorship/.