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Summary
Booting
Initialization
Interrupts
System calls
Introduction to system calls
How the Linux kernel handles a system call
vsyscall and vDSO
How the Linux kernel runs a program
Implementation of the open system call
Limits on resources in Linux
Timers and time management
Synchronization primitives
Memory management
Cgroups
SMP
Concepts
Data Structures in the Linux Kernel
Theory
Initial ram disk
Misc
KernelStructures
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System calls
This chapter describes the
system call
concept in the Linux kernel.
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Introduction to system call concept
- this part is introduction to the
system call
concept in the Linux kernel.
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How the Linux kernel handles a system call
- this part describes how the Linux kernel handles a system call from a userspace application.
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vsyscall and vDSO
- third part describes
vsyscall
and
vDSO
concepts.
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How the Linux kernel runs a program
- this part describes startup process of a program.
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Implementation of the open system call
- this part describes implementation of the
open
system call.
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Limits on resources in Linux
- this part describes implementation of the
getrlimit/setrlimit
system calls.
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