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Mauerer ffirs.tex V2-08/26/2008 3:23am Pageii Mauerer ffirs.tex V2-08/26/2008 3:23am Pagei Professional Linux® Kernel Architecture Introduction ..................................................................xxvii Chapter1:IntroductionandOverview .......................................... 1 Chapter2:ProcessManagementandScheduling............................. 35 Chapter3:MemoryManagement............................................ 133 Chapter4:VirtualProcessMemory.......................................... 289 Chapter5:LockingandInterprocessCommunication....................... 347 Chapter6:DeviceDrivers .................................................... 391 Chapter7:Modules .......................................................... 473 Chapter8:TheVirtualFilesystem............................................ 519 Chapter9:TheExtendedFilesystemFamily................................. 583 Chapter10:FilesystemswithoutPersistentStorage ....................... 643 Chapter11:ExtendedAttributesandAccessControlLists ................. 707 Chapter12:Networks........................................................ 733 Chapter13:SystemCalls .................................................... 819 Chapter14:KernelActivities ................................................ 847 Chapter15:Timemanagement .............................................. 893 Chapter16:PageandBufferCache.......................................... 949 Chapter17:DataSynchronization ........................................... 989 Chapter18:PageReclaimandSwapping................................... 1023 Chapter19:Auditing ........................................................ 1097 AppendixA:ArchitectureSpecifics......................................... 1117 AppendixB:WorkingwiththeSourceCode ................................ 1141 AppendixC:NotesonC ..................................................... 1175 AppendixD:SystemStartup ................................................ 1223 AppendixE:TheELFBinaryFormat ......................................... 1241 AppendixF:TheKernelDevelopmentProcess.............................. 1267 Bibliography................................................................. 1289 Index ........................................................................ 1293 Mauerer ffirs.tex V2-08/26/2008 3:23am Pageii Mauerer ffirs.tex V2-08/26/2008 3:23am Pageiii Professional Linux® Kernel Architecture Wolfgang Mauerer WileyPublishing,Inc. 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Withtheconfirmedcapacityofbeingtheworstexperimentalistintheknownuniverse,hestickstothe theoreticalsideofhisprofession,whichisespeciallyreassuringconsideringhisconstantfearofacci- dentallydestroyingtheuniverse.Outsidehisresearchwork,heisfascinatedbyoperatingsystems,and formorethanadecade—startingwithanarticleseriesaboutthekernelin1997—hehasfoundgreat pleasureindocumentingandexplainingLinuxkernelinternals.Heisalsotheauthorofabookabout typesettingwithLaTeXandhaswrittennumerousarticlesthathavebeentranslatedintosevenlanguages intotal. Whenhe’snotsubmergedinvastHilbertspacesorlargequantitiesofsourcecode,hetriestotakethe oppositedirection,namely,upward—bethiswithmodelplanes,aparaglider,oronfootwithaniceaxe inhishands:MountainsespeciallyhavethepowertooutrivaleventheLinuxkernel.Consequently,he considersplanningandaccomplishingafirst-ascentexpeditiontothevastarcticglaciersofeastGreen- landtobethereallyuniqueachievementinhislife. Being interested in everything that is fundamental, he is also the author of the first compiler for Plankalku¨l,theworld’searliesthigh-levellanguagedevisedin1942–1946byKonradZuse,thefatherof thecomputer.Asanavidreader,heisproudthatdespitethetwo-digitnumberofcomputerspresentin hislivingroom,thevolumerequiredforbooksstilloccupiesalargershare. Mauerer fauth.tex V2-08/22/2008 4:52am Pagevi Mauerer fcredit.tex V2-08/22/2008 4:53am Pagevii Credits ExecutiveEditor VicePresidentandExecutiveGroup CarolLong Publisher RichardSwadley SeniorDevelopmentEditor TomDinse VicePresidentandExecutive Publisher ProductionEditor JosephB.Wikert DebraBanninger CopyEditors ProjectCoordinator,Cover CateCaffrey LynseyStanford KathrynDuggan Proofreader EditorialManager PublicationServices,Inc. MaryBethWakefield ProductionManager Indexer TimTate JackLewis

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