• Author:
  • O'Gorman, John
• Subject:
  Computer Hardware
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons (UK)
• Published:
  25/04/2003
• Price:
  $115.00
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• An ideal resource to understand the internals, line by line
• Looks at architecture dependent code for PC version
• Addresses process creation, timers, software and hardware interrupts, signals, tracing processes, and the virtual 8086 mode

Editor's Note; In Memoriam.

Background and Overview.

Introduction.

Representing processes in Linux.

Organising the task structures.

Wait Queues.

Mutual exclusion with locks.

Mutual exclusion with waiting.

Scheduling.

Process creation.

Process termination.

Interrupting Linux.

Exception handlers.

Hardware interrupts.

Advanced programmable interrupt controllers.

The input-output advanced programmable interrupt controller (the IO APIC).

The timer interrupt.

Software interrupts.

The signal mechanism.

Posting and delivering signals.

Executing a signal handler.

Capabilities.

Personalities and execution domains.

Tracing processes.

Process accounting.

Virtual 8086 mode.

Index.