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Solaris™ Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture, Second Edition
By Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: July 10, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-148209-2
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-148209-8
Pages: 1072

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Foreword
		Preface
		About the Authors
		Acknowledgments
		Part One:  Introduction to Solaris Internals
			Chapter 1.  Introduction
				Section 1.1.  Key Features of Solaris 10, Solaris 9, and Solaris 8
				Section 1.2.  Key Differentiators
				Section 1.3.  Kernel Overview
				Section 1.4.  Processes, Threads, and Scheduling
				Section 1.5.  Interprocess Communication
				Section 1.6.  Signals
				Section 1.7.  Memory Management
				Section 1.8.  Files and File Systems
				Section 1.9.  Resource Management
		Part Two:  The Process Model
			Chapter 2.  The Solaris Process Model
				Section 2.1.  Components of a Process
				Section 2.2.  Process Model Evolution
				Section 2.3.  Executable Objects
				Section 2.4.  Process Structures
				Section 2.5.  Kernel Process Table
				Section 2.6.  Process Resource Attributes
				Section 2.7.  Process Creation
				Section 2.8.  System Calls
				Section 2.9.  Process Termination
				Section 2.10.  The Process File System
				Section 2.11.  Signals
				Section 2.12.  Sessions and Process Groups
				Section 2.13.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 3.  Scheduling Classes and the Dispatcher
				Section 3.1.  Fundamentals
				Section 3.2.  Processor Abstractions
				Section 3.3.  Dispatcher Queues, Structures, and Variables
				Section 3.4.  Dispatcher Locks
				Section 3.5.  Dispatcher Initialization
				Section 3.6.  Scheduling Classes
				Section 3.7.  Thread Priorities
				Section 3.8.  Dispatcher Functions
				Section 3.9.  Preemption
				Section 3.10.  The Kernel Sleep/Wakeup Facility
				Section 3.11.  Interrupts
				Section 3.12.  Summary
				Section 3.13.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 4.  Interprocess Communication
				Section 4.1.  The System V IPC Framework
				Section 4.2.  System V IPC Resource Controls
				Section 4.3.  Configuring IPC Tuneables on Solaris 10
				Section 4.4.  System V Shared Memory
				Section 4.5.  System V Semaphores
				Section 4.6.  System V Message Queues
				Section 4.7.  POSIX IPC
				Section 4.8.  Solaris Doors
				Section 4.9.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 5.  Process Rights Management
				Section 5.1.  Then and Now
				Section 5.2.  Least Privilege in Solaris
				Section 5.3.  Process Privilege Models
				Section 5.4.  Privilege Awareness: The Details
				Section 5.5.  Least Privilege Interfaces
				Section 5.5.5.  System Call Interfaces
				Section 5.5.6.  Library Interfaces
				Section 5.5.7.  Using Privileges with Role-Based Access Control
				Section 5.5.8.  Using Privileges with Role-Based Access Control
				Section 5.5.9.  Using DTrace for Tracking Privileges
				Section 5.5.10.  Enhancements to proc(4) and Core Dumps
				Section 5.5.11.  Privilege Debugging
				Section 5.5.12.  Privilege Auditing
				Section 5.5.13.  Device Protection
		Part Three:  Resource Management
			Chapter 6.  Zones
				Section 6.1.  Introduction
				Section 6.2.  Zone Runtime
				Section 6.3.  Booting Zones
				Section 6.4.  Security
				Section 6.5.  Process Model
				Section 6.6.  File Systems
				Section 6.7.  Networking
				Section 6.8.  Devices
				Section 6.9.  Interprocess Communication
				Section 6.10.  Resource Management and Observability
				Section 6.11.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 7.  Projects, Tasks, and Resource Controls
				Section 7.1.  Projects and Tasks Framework
				Section 7.2.  The Project Database
				Section 7.3.  Project and Task APIs
				Section 7.4.  Kernel Infrastructure for Projects and Tasks
				Section 7.5.  Resource Controls
				Section 7.6.  Interfaces for Resource Controls
				Section 7.7.  Kernel Interfaces for Resource Controls
		Part Four:  Memory
			Chapter 8.  Introduction to Solaris Memory
				Section 8.1.  Virtual Memory Primer
				Section 8.2.  Two Levels of Memory
				Section 8.3.  Memory Sharing and Protection
				Section 8.4.  Pages: Basic Units of Physical Memory
				Section 8.5.  Virtual-to-Physical Translation
				Section 8.6.  Physical Memory Management: Paging and Swapping
				Section 8.7.  Virtual Memory as a File System Cache
				Section 8.8.  New Features of the Virtual Memory Implementation
			Chapter 9.  Virtual Memory
				Section 9.1.  Design Overview
				Section 9.2.  Virtual Address Spaces
				Section 9.3.  Tracing the VM System
				Section 9.4.  Virtual Address Space Management
				Section 9.5.  Segment Drivers
				Section 9.6.  Anonymous Memory
				Section 9.7.  The Anonymous Memory Layer
				Section 9.8.  The swapfs Layer
				Section 9.9.  Virtual Memory Watchpoints
				Section 9.10.  Changes to Support Large Pages
				Section 9.11.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 10.  Physical Memory
				Section 10.1.  Physical Memory Allocation
				Section 10.2.  Pages: The Basic Unit of Solaris Memory
				Section 10.3.  The Page Scanner
				Section 10.4.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 11.  Kernel Memory
				Section 11.1.  Kernel Virtual Memory Layout
				Section 11.2.  Kernel Memory Allocation
				Section 11.3.  The Vmem Allocator
				Section 11.4.  Kernel Memory Allocator Tracing
				Section 11.5.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 12.  Hardware Address Translation
				Section 12.1.  HAT Overview
				Section 12.2.  The UltraSPARC HAT Layer
				Section 12.3.  The x64 HAT Layer
				Section 12.4.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 13.  Working with Multiple Page Sizes in Solaris
				Section 13.1.  Determining When to Use Large Pages
				Section 13.2.  Measuring Application Performance
				Section 13.3.  Configuring for Multiple Page Sizes
		Part Five:  File Systems
			Chapter 14.  File System Framework
				Section 14.1.  File System Framework
				Section 14.2.  Process-Level File Abstractions
				Section 14.3.  Solaris File System Framework
				Section 14.4.  File System Modules
				Section 14.5.  The Virtual File System (vfs) Interface
				Section 14.6.  The Vnode
				Section 14.7.  File System I/O
				Section 14.8.  File Systems and Memory Allocation
				Section 14.9.  Path-Name Management
				Section 14.10.  The Directory Name Lookup Cache
				Section 14.11.  The File System Flush Daemon
				Section 14.12.  File System Conversion to Solaris 10
				Section 14.13.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 15.  The UFS File System
				Section 15.1.  UFS Development History
				Section 15.2.  UFS On-Disk Format
				Section 15.3.  The UFS Inode
				Section 15.4.  Access Control in UFS
				Section 15.5.  Extended Attributes in UFS
				Section 15.6.  Locking in UFS
				Section 15.7.  Logging
				Section 15.8.  MDB Reference
		Part Six:  Platform Specifics
			Chapter 16.  Support for NUMA and CMT Hardware
				Section 16.1.  Memory Hierarchy Designs
				Section 16.2.  Memory Placement Optimization Framework
				Section 16.3.  Initial Thread Placement
				Section 16.4.  Scheduling
				Section 16.5.  Memory Allocation
				Section 16.6.  Lgroup Implementation
				Section 16.7.  MPO APIs
				Section 16.8.  Locality Group Hierarchy
				Section 16.9.  MPO Statistics
				Section 16.10.  MDB Reference
			Chapter 17.  Locking and Synchronization
				Section 17.1.  Synchronization
				Section 17.2.  Parallel Systems Architectures
				Section 17.3.  Hardware Considerations for Locks and Synchronization
				Section 17.4.  Introduction to Synchronization Objects
				Section 17.5.  Mutex Locks
				Section 17.6.  Reader/Writer Locks
				Section 17.7.  Turnstiles and Priority Inheritance
				Section 17.8.  Kernel Semaphores
				Section 17.9.  DTrace Lockstat Provider
		Part Seven:  Networking
			Chapter 18.  The Solaris Network Stack
				Section 18.1.  STREAMS and the Network Stack
				Section 18.2.  Solaris 10 Stack: Design Goals
				Section 18.3.  Solaris 10 Network Stack Framework
				Section 18.4.  TCP as an Implementation of the New Framework
				Section 18.5.  UDP
				Section 18.6.  Synchronous STREAMS
				Section 18.7.  IP
				Section 18.8.  Solaris Device Driver Framework
				Section 18.9.  Interrupt Model and NIC Speeds
				Section 18.10.  Summary
				Section 18.11.  MDB Reference
		Part Eight:  Kernel Services
			Chapter 19.  Clocks and Timers
				Section 19.1.  The System Clock Thread
				Section 19.2.  Callouts and Callout Tables
				Section 19.3.  System Time Facilities
				Section 19.4.  The Cyclic Subsystem
			Chapter 20.  Task Queues
				Section 20.1.  Overview of Task Queues
				Section 20.2.  Dynamic Task Queues
				Section 20.3.  Task Queues Kernel Programming Interfaces
				Section 20.4.  Device Driver Interface for Task Queues
				Section 20.5.  Task Queue Observability
				Section 20.6.  Task Queue Implementation Notes
			Chapter 21.  kmdb Implementation
				Section 21.1.  Introduction
		Appendices
			Appendix A.  Kernel Virtual Address Maps
			Appendix B.  Adding a System Call to Solaris
				Section B.1.  Setting Kernel Parameters
			Appendix C.  A Sample Procfs Utility
				Section C.1.  Microstate Accounting Using /proc
				Section C.2.  Source Code for msacct
		Bibliography
		Index