Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition

Index

Symbols

. (period) and ..(double period) notation, Files

80 x 86 processors, Organization of the Material

clocks, Hardware Clocks

exceptions, Exceptions

I/O architecture, I/O Architecture, Putting DMA to work

memory, Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)

Task State Segment, Task State Segment

802.3 standard, The neighbor cache

A

aborts, Interrupts and Exceptions

absolute pathnames, Files

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), Mapping addresses of I/O shared memory

access rights, Access Rights and File Mode

ACLs (access control lists), General Characteristics of Ext2

active lists, The Least Recently Used (LRU) Lists

active swap areas, Swap Area

active transactions, Transactions

address buses, I/O Architecture

address resolution, Libraries

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), The neighbor cache

address spaces, Processes, The Process’s Address Space

creating, Creating and Deleting a Process Address Space

deleting, Deleting a Process Address Space

addresses, Memory Addresses

address_space objects, The address_space Object, The address_space Object

page descriptors, The lists of page descriptors in the address_space object

adjacent bytes, Block Device Drivers

Advanced Power Management (APM), Segmentation in Linux

Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controllers (see APICs)

advisory file locks, File Locking

AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), Mapping addresses of I/O shared memory

alignment factors, Aligning Objects in Memory

anonymous mapping, Demand Paging

APICs (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controllers), The Advanced Programmable ...