SolarisT Internals. Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture

Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture (2nd Edition)

ISBN: 0131482092
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 244

Authors: Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro

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Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture, Second Edition
Table of Contents
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 SleepWakeup 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 IO
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. ReaderWriter 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
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