HP-UX 11i Internals - page 1
- HP-UX 11i Internals
- HP-UX 11i Internals
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Hewlett-Packard Professional Books
- Preface
- Chapter 1 PA-RISC 2.0 Architecture
- Chapter 2 Procedure Calling Conventions
- Chapter 3 The Kernel: Basic Organization
- Chapter 4 Programs, Processes, and Threads
- Chapter 5 Process and Thread Management from the Process s Viewpoint
- Chapter 6 Managing Memory
- Chapter 7 The HP-UX Paging System
- Chapter 8 Files and File Systems
- Chapter 9 The Process Life Cycle, Cradle to Grave
- Chapter 10 IO and Device Management
- Chapter 11 The Logical Volume Manager
- Chapter 12 Multiprocessing and HP-UX
- Chapter 13 Kernel Services
- Chapter 14 Signals
- Chapter 15 System Initialization
- Chapter 16 Tools Overview
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
- Chapter 1. PA-RISC 2.0 Architecture
- RISC Architecture
- Hardware Modules
- Registers
- Virtual Memory Support
- Address Translation
- Interruptions
- Summary
- Chapter 2. Procedure Calling Conventions
- Register Usage
- PA-RISC Instructions
- Procedure Call Model
- Procedure Return Model
- Stack Usage
- Summary
- Chapter 3. The Kernel: Basic Organization
- A Generic Overview
- All IO Is File IO
- Abstraction Layers
- Some Generic Kernel Techniques
- The HP-UX Kernel Overview
- Fundamental Kernel Data Structures: A First Pass
- Kernel Process Tables
- The Kernel File System Tables
- The Kernel InputOutput Tables
- Drivers and Switch Tables
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Programs, Processes, and Threads
- The Players
- A Process and Its Threads
- Threading Models and HP-UX
- The System Call Interface
- Summary
- Chapter 5. Process and Thread Management from the Process s Viewpoint
- A Process and Its Resources
- The proc Table
- The kthread Table
- The Process s Logical View
- Memory Windows
- Building the Logical Map
- ProcessThread Scheduling
- Run Queues
- Summary
- Chapter 6. Managing Memory
- Types of Memory
- The System s Virtual Address Space
- Virtual-to-Physical Page Tables
- The Kernel View: The Hashtable
- Shared Objects
- The b-tree
- Broot, Bnodes, and Chunks
- Page Lists
- Connecting the Kernel View to the Process View
- Keeping Track of Free Physical Page Frames
