| HP-UX 11i Internals |
| By Chris Cooper, Chris Moore |
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| Publisher | : Prentice Hall PTR |
| Pub Date | : January 22, 2004 |
| ISBN | : 0-13-032861-8 |
| Pages | : 432 |
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| 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 I/O 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 I/O Is File I/O |
| | | | 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 Input/Output 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 |
| | | | Process/Thread 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. I/O and Device Management |
| | | | PA-RISC I/O Architecture |
| | | | I/O Framework |
| | | | I/O 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 |
