Solaris™ Internals: Core Kernel Components

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. List of Figures
3. List of Tables
4. List of Header Files
5. Preface
6. Acknowledgments
7. Introduction to Solaris Internals
   1. An Introduction to Solaris
      1. A Brief History
      2. Key Differentiators
      3. Kernel Overview
      4. Processes, Threads, and Scheduling
      5. Interprocess Communication
      6. Signals
      7. Memory Management
      8. Files and File Systems
      9. I/O Architecture
   2. Kernel Services
      1. Access to Kernel Services
      2. Entering Kernel Mode
      3. Interrupts
      4. System Calls
      5. The Kernel Callout Table
      6. The System Clock
   3. Kernel Synchronization Primitives
      1. Synchronization
      2. Parallel Systems Architectures
      3. Hardware Considerations for Locks and Synchronization
      4. Introduction to Synchronization Objects
      5. Mutex Locks
      6. Reader/Writer Locks
      7. Turnstiles and Priority Inheritance
      8. Dispatcher Locks
      9. Kernel Semaphores
   4. Kernel Bootstrap and Initialization
      1. Kernel Directory Hierarchy
      2. Kernel Bootstrap and Initialization
      3. Kernel Module Loading and Linking
8. The Solaris Memory System
   1. Solaris Memory Architecture
      1. Why Have a Virtual Memory System?
      2. Modular Implementation
      3. Virtual Address Spaces
      4. Memory Segments
      5. Anonymous Memory
      6. Virtual Memory Watchpoints
      7. Global Page Management
      8. The Page Scanner
      9. The Hardware Address Translation Layer
   2. Kernel Memory
      1. Kernel Virtual Memory Layout
      2. Kernel Memory Allocation
   3. Memory Monitoring
      1. A Quick Introduction to Memory Monitoring
      2. Memory Monitoring Tools
      3. The vmstat Command
      4. MemTool: Unbundled Memory Tools
      5. Other Memory Tools
9. Threads, Processes, and IPC
   1. The Solaris Multithreaded Process Architecture
      1. Introduction to Solaris Processes
      2. Process Structures
      3. The Kernel Process Table
      4. Process Creation
      5. Process Termination
      6. Procfs — The Process File System
      7. Signals
      8. Sessions and Process Groups
   2. The Solaris Kernel Dispatcher
      1. Overview
      2. The Kernel Dispatcher
      3. The Kernel Sleep/Wakeup Facility
      4. Scheduler Activations
      5. Kernel Processor Control and Processor Sets
   3. Interprocess Communication
      1. Generic System V IPC Support
      2. System V Shared Memory
      3. System V Semaphores
      4. System V Message Queues
      5. POSIX IPC
      6. Solaris Doors
10. Files and File Systems
    1. Solaris Files and File I/O
       1. Files in Solaris
       2. File Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
       3. System File I/O
       4. Asynchronous I/O
       5. Memory Mapped File I/O
       6. 64-bit Files in Solaris
    2. File System Overview
       1. Why Have a File System?
       2. Support for Multiple File System Types
       3. Regular (On-Disk) File Systems
    3. File System Framework
       1. Solaris File System Framework
       2. The vnode
       3. The vfs Object
       4. File System I/O
       5. Path-Name Management
       6. The File System Flush Daemon
    4. The UNIX File System
       1. UFS Development History
       2. UFS On-Disk Format
       3. UFS Implementation
    5. Solaris File System Cache
       1. Introduction to File Caching
       2. Page Cache and Virtual Memory System
       3. Is All That Paging Bad for My System?
       4. Paging Parameters That Affect File System Performance
       5. Bypassing the Page Cache with Direct I/O
       6. Directory Name Cache
       7. Inode Caches
11. Kernel Tunables, Switches, and Limits
    1. Setting Kernel Parameters
    2. System V IPC - Shared Memory Parameters
    3. Virtual Memory Parameters
    4. File System Parameters
    5. Miscelaneous Parameters
    6. Process and Dispatcher (Scheduler) Parameters
    7. STREAMS Parameters
12. Kernel Virtual Address Maps
13. A Sample Procfs Utility
14. Bibliography
15. Index