HP-UX 11i Internals
HP-UX 11i Internals
ISBN: 0130328618
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 167
Pages: 167
Authors: Chris Cooper, Chris Moore
- 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
HP-UX 11i Internals
ISBN: 0130328618
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 167
Pages: 167
Authors: Chris Cooper, Chris Moore