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HP-UX 11i Internals

ISBN: 0130328618
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 167

Authors: Chris Cooper, Chris Moore

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• 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
• Variable Page Size
• Physical Memory Allocator at HP-UX 11.0
• Summary
• Chapter 7. The HP-UX Paging System
• Pages on Demand
• Monitoring Free Memory
• A Thief in the Night: vhand
• Reservation Versus Allocation
• Pseudo-Swap
• Device Swap
• File System Swap
• Swap Priority
• Tracking Swap in the Kernel Structures
• Summary
• Chapter 8. Files and File Systems
• File System Concepts
• The New and Improved UNIX File System
• The Kernel View of File Systems
• Summary
• Chapter 9. The Process Life Cycle, Cradle to Grave
• The Birth of a Process
• A Historic Look at the fork() Call
• The fork1() Kernel Routine
• Process and Thread States: Idle Hands
• Process Identity Crisis: The exec() System Call
• Shared Memory Objects Revisited
• The exit() System Call Mechanics
• Summary
• Chapter 10. IO and Device Management
• PA-RISC IO Architecture
• IO Framework
• IO Odds and Ends
• Summary
• Chapter 11. The Logical Volume Manager
• LVM Design Concept
• Disk-Resident Data Structures
• LVM: The Kernel View
• Summary
• Chapter 12. Multiprocessing and HP-UX
• Hardware Overview
• Multiprocessing Data Structures
• Synchronization
• Summary
• Chapter 13. Kernel Services
• The Callout Table
• Kernel Memory Allocation
• Summary
• Chapter 14. Signals
• Signal Data Structures
• Signal Anticipation
• Signal Delivery
• Signal Recognition
• Signal Handler Launch
• Summary
• Chapter 15. System Initialization
• ISL: The Initial System Loader
• HPUXBOOT: The Secondary Loader
• Real-Mode Initialization
• Virtual Mode Initialization
• Summary
• Chapter 16. Tools Overview
• adb
• q4
• Summary
• Index
• index_SYMBOL
• index_A
• index_B
• index_C
• index_D
• index_E
• index_F
• index_G
• index_H
• index_I
• index_K
• index_L
• index_M
• index_N
• index_P
• index_Q
• index_R
• index_S
• index_T
• index_U
• index_V