HP-UX 11i Internals

Table of Contents

1. Copyright
2. Hewlett-Packard® Professional Books
3. Preface
4. Acknowledgments
5. List of Figures
6. List of Tables
7. List of Listings
8. PA-RISC 2.0 Architecture
   1. RISC Architecture
   2. Hardware Modules
   3. Registers
   4. Virtual Memory Support
   5. Address Translation
   6. Interruptions
   7. Summary
9. Procedure Calling Conventions
   1. Register Usage
   2. PA-RISC Instructions
   3. Procedure Call Model
   4. Procedure Return Model
   5. Stack Usage
   6. Summary
10. The Kernel: Basic Organization
    1. A Generic Overview
    2. All I/O Is File I/O
    3. Abstraction Layers
    4. Some Generic Kernel Techniques
    5. The HP-UX Kernel Overview
    6. Fundamental Kernel Data Structures: A First Pass
    7. Kernel Process Tables
    8. The Kernel File System Tables
    9. The Kernel Input/Output Tables
    10. Drivers and Switch Tables
    11. Summary
11. Programs, Processes, and Threads
    1. The Players
    2. A Process and Its Threads
    3. Threading Models and HP-UX
    4. The System Call Interface
    5. Summary
12. Process and Thread Management from the Process's Viewpoint
    1. A Process and Its Resources
    2. The proc Table
    3. The kthread Table
    4. The Process's Logical View
    5. Memory Windows
    6. Building the Logical Map
    7. Process/Thread Scheduling
    8. Run Queues
    9. Summary
13. Managing Memory
    1. Types of Memory
    2. The System's Virtual Address Space
    3. Virtual-to-Physical Page Tables
    4. The Kernel View: The Hashtable
    5. Shared Objects
    6. The b-tree
    7. Broot, Bnodes, and Chunks
    8. Page Lists
    9. Connecting the Kernel View to the Process View
    10. Keeping Track of Free Physical Page Frames
    11. Variable Page Size
    12. Physical Memory Allocator at HP-UX 11.0
    13. Summary
14. The HP-UX Paging System
    1. Pages on Demand
    2. Monitoring Free Memory
    3. A Thief in the Night: vhand
    4. Reservation Versus Allocation
    5. Pseudo-Swap
    6. Device Swap
    7. File System Swap
    8. Swap Priority
    9. Tracking Swap in the Kernel Structures
    10. Summary
15. Files and File Systems
    1. File System Concepts
    2. The New and Improved UNIX File System
    3. The Kernel View of File Systems
    4. Summary
16. The Process Life Cycle, Cradle to Grave
    1. The Birth of a Process
    2. A Historic Look at the fork() Call
    3. The fork1() Kernel Routine
    4. Process and Thread States: Idle Hands
    5. Process Identity Crisis: The exec() System Call
    6. Shared Memory Objects Revisited
    7. The exit() System Call Mechanics
    8. Summary
17. I/O and Device Management
    1. PA-RISC I/O Architecture
    2. I/O Framework
    3. I/O Odds and Ends
    4. Summary
18. The Logical Volume Manager
    1. LVM Design Concept
    2. Disk-Resident Data Structures
    3. LVM: The Kernel View
    4. Summary
19. Multiprocessing and HP-UX
    1. Hardware Overview
    2. Multiprocessing Data Structures
    3. Synchronization
    4. Summary
20. Kernel Services
    1. The Callout Table
    2. Kernel Memory Allocation
    3. Summary
21. Signals
    1. Signal Data Structures
    2. Signal Anticipation
    3. Signal Delivery
    4. Signal Recognition
    5. Signal Handler Launch
    6. Summary
22. System Initialization
    1. ISL: The Initial System Loader
    2. HPUXBOOT: The Secondary Loader
    3. Real-Mode Initialization
    4. Virtual Mode Initialization
    5. Summary
23. Tools Overview
    1. adb
    2. q4
    3. Summary
24. Index