The Linux Process Manager - the Internals of Scheduling, Interrupts and Signals

John Oa Gorman is a senior lecturer at the University of Limerick. His research interests are in the area of reverse engineering, and he has been analysing a wide range of operating system internals, and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the topic, for 25 years. He is the author of two textbooks on operating systems, one of which takes Linux as a running example.

Preface. Editora s Note; In Memoriam. Background and Overview. Introduction. Representing processes in Linux. Organising the task structures. Wait Queues. Mutual exclusion with locks. Mutual exclusion with waiting. Scheduling. Process creation. Process termination. Interrupting Linux. Exception handlers. Hardware interrupts. Advanced programmable interrupt controllers. The input--output advanced programmable interrupt controller (the IO APIC). The timer interrupt. Software interrupts. The signal mechanism. Posting and delivering signals. Executing a signal handler. Capabilities. Personalities and execution domains. Tracing processes. Process accounting. Virtual 8086 mode. Index.