Professional Linux Kernel Architecture

""Title Page""
 ""Copyright""
 ""About the Author""
 ""Credits""
 ""Acknowledgments""
 ""Introduction""
 ""What This Book Covers""
 ""Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview""
 ""1.1 Tasks of the Kernel""
 ""1.2 Implementation Strategies""
 ""1.3 Elements of the Kernel""
 ""1.4 Why the Kernel Is Special""
 ""1.5 Some Notes on Presentation""
 ""1.6 Summary""
 ""Chapter 2: Process Management and Scheduling""
 ""2.1 Process Priorities""
 ""2.2 Process Life Cycle""
 ""2.3 Process Representation""
 ""2.4 Process Management System Calls""
 ""2.5 Implementation of the Scheduler"" ""2.6 The Completely Fair Scheduling Class""""2.7 The Real-Time Scheduling Class""
 ""2.8 Scheduler Enhancements""
 ""2.9 Summary""
 ""Chapter 3: Memory Management""
 ""3.1 Overview""
 ""3.2 Organization in the (N)UMA Model""
 ""3.3 Page Tables""
 ""3.4 Initialization of Memory Management""
 ""3.5 Management of Physical Memory""
 ""3.6 The Slab Allocator""
 ""3.7 Processor Cache and TLB Control""
 ""3.8 Summary""
 ""Chapter 4: Virtual Process Memory""
 ""4.1 Introduction""
 ""4.2 Virtual Process Address Space""
 ""4.3 Principle of Memory Mappings""
 ""4.4 Data Structures"" ""4.5 Operations on Regions""""4.6 Address Spaces""
 ""4.7 Memory Mappings""
 ""4.8 Reverse Mapping""
 ""4.9 Managing the Heap""
 ""4.10 Handling of Page Faults""
 ""4.11 Correction of Userspace Page Faults""
 ""4.12 Kernel Page Faults""
 ""4.13 Copying Data between Kernel and Userspace""
 ""4.14 Summary""
 ""Chapter 5: Locking and Interprocess Communication""
 ""5.1 Control Mechanisms""
 ""5.2 Kernel Locking Mechanisms""
 ""5.3 System V Interprocess Communication""
 ""5.4 Other IPC Mechanisms""
 ""5.5 Summary""
 ""Chapter 6: Device Drivers""
 ""6.1 I/O Architecture"" ""6.2 Access to Devices""""6.3 Association with the Filesystem""
 ""6.4 Character Device Operations""
 ""6.5 Block Device Operations""
 ""6.6 Resource Reservation""
 ""6.7 Bus Systems""
 ""6.8 Summary""
 ""Chapter 7: Modules""
 ""7.1 Overview""
 ""7.2 Using Modules""
 ""7.3 Inserting and Deleting Modules""
 ""7.4 Automation and Hotplugging""
 ""7.5 Version Control""
 ""7.6 Summary""
 ""Chapter 8: The Virtual Filesystem""
 ""8.1 Filesystem Types""
 ""8.2 The Common File Model""
 ""8.3 Structure of the VFS""
 ""8.4 Working with VFS Objects""
 ""8.5 Standard Functions""
 ""8.6 Summary"" ""Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family""""9.1 Introduction""
 ""9.2 Second Extended Filesystem""
 ""9.3 Third Extended Filesystem""
 ""9.4 Summary""
 ""Chapter 10: Filesystems without Persistent Storage""
 ""10.1 The proc Filesystem""
 ""10.2 Simple Filesystems""
 ""10.3 Sysfs""
 ""10.4 Summary""
 ""Chapter 11: Extended Attributes and Access Control Lists""
 ""11.1 Extended Attributes""
 ""11.2 Access Control Lists""
 ""11.3 Summary""
 ""Chapter 12: Networks""
 ""12.1 Linked Computers""
 ""12.2 ISO/OSI and TCP/IP Reference Model""
 ""12.3 Communication via Sockets""