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Solaris Internals - Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture, Second Edition by Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro
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    • Product code: 166508
    • ISBN: 0131482092, ISBN13: 9780131482098, 832 pages, paperback
      Published by Prentice Hall on 2006 , 2nd
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    Description of Solaris Internals - Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture, Second Edition

    Solaris is a widely used version of UNIX and for the first time Solaris is open source with version 10 (released JAN 2005). This book explains--from the designers themselves--how Solaris was built and what makes it operate. It digs into the details of the Solaris 10 kernel, discussing the modular architecture of the kernel and each major subsystem. The goal of this book is to not just describe the internal components that make the Solaris kernel tick, but to also provide guidance on putting the information to practical use with emphasis on the use of bundled tools and utilities that can be used to examine and probe a running system. Since the first edition of this title, the authors have communicated with many Solaris users, developers, and sys admins who provided feedback on the book's content and structure. In response to this feedback, Mauro and McDougall have adopted a different, easier format which now breaks each topic into three distinct sections.

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    "In total, the two books Solaris Performance and Tools & Solaris Internals reviewed here present a new level of knowledge about the internals of Solaris, what they do, how they behave, and how to analyze that behavior. The books are a must for developers, system programmers, and systems administrators who work with Solaris 8, 9, or 10. They are especially useful for users of Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris because of their exploration of the new tools in those releases. These books receive my highest recommendation. "
    – Peter Baer Galvin, Contributing Editor, Sys Admin Magazine

    Contents of Solaris Internals - Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture, Second Edition

    Foreword xxvii
    Preface xxix
    About the Authors xxxvii
    Acknowledgments xxxix

    Part One: Introduction to Solaris Internals 1

    Chapter 1: Introduction 3

    1.1 Key Features of Solaris 10, Solaris 9, and Solaris 8 4

    1.2 Key Differentiators 12

    1.3 Kernel Overview 15

    1.4 Processes, Threads, and Scheduling 18

    1.5 Interprocess Communication 23

    1.6 Signals 25

    1.7 Memory Management 26

    1.8 Files and File Systems 29

    1.9 Resource Management 30

    Part Two: The Process Model 41

    Chapter 2: The Solaris Process Model 43

    2.1 Components of a Process 44

    2.2 Process Model Evolution 48

    2.3 Executable Objects 52

    2.4 Process Structures 55

    2.5 Kernel Process Table 79

    2.6 Process Resource Attributes 84

    2.7 Process Creation 89

    2.8 System Calls 98

    2.9 Process Termination 106

    2.10 The Process File System 110

    2.11 Signals 129

    2.12 Sessions and Process Groups 150

    2.13 MDB Reference 156
    Chapter 3: Scheduling Classes and the Dispatcher 157

    3.1 Fundamentals 157

    3.2 Processor Abstractions 162

    3.3 Dispatcher Queues, Structures, and Variables 171

    3.4 Dispatcher Locks 183

    3.5 Dispatcher Initialization 190

    3.6 Scheduling Classes 192

    3.7 Thread Priorities 207

    3.8 Dispatcher Functions 234

    3.9 Preemption 246

    3.10 The Kernel Sleep/Wakeup Facility 253

    3.11 Interrupts 262

    3.12 Summary 270

    3.13 MDB Reference 271
    Chapter 4: Interprocess Communication 273

    4.1 The System V IPC Framework 274

    4.2 System V IPC Resource Controls 282

    4.3 Configuring IPC Tuneables on Solaris 10 285

    4.4 System V Shared Memory 286

    4.5 System V Semaphores 295

    4.6 System V Message Queues 299

    4.7 POSIX IPC 303

    4.8 Solaris Doors 312

    4.9 MDB Reference 321
    Chapter 5: Process Rights Management 323

    5.1 Then and Now 323

    5.2 Least Privilege in Solaris 324

    5.3 Process Privilege Models 325

    5.4 Privilege Awareness: The Details 334

    5.5 Least Privilege Interfaces 344
    Part Three: Resource Management 365Chapter 6: Zones 367

    6.1 Introduction 367

    6.2 Zone Runtime 371

    6.3 Booting Zones 375

    6.4 Security 379

    6.5 Process Model 386

    6.6 File Systems 389

    6.7 Networking 393

    6.8 Devices 398

    6.9 Interprocess Communication 405

    6.10 Resource Management and Observability 407

    6.11 MDB Reference 414
    Chapter 7: Projects, Tasks, and Resource Controls 415

    7.1 Projects and Tasks Framework 415

    7.2 The Project Database 418

    7.3 Project and Task APIs 419

    7.4 Kernel Infrastructure for Projects and Tasks 420

    7.5 Resource Controls 423

    7.6 Interfaces for Resource Controls 432

    7.7 Kernel Interfaces for Resource Controls 437
    Part Four: Memory 445Chapter 8: Introduction to Solaris Memory 447

    8.1 Virtual Memory Primer 447

    8.2 Two Levels of Memory 448

    8.3 Memory Sharing and Protection 448

    8.4 Pages: Basic Units of Physical Memory 448

    8.5 Virtual-to-Physical Translation 449

    8.6 Physical Memory Management: Paging and Swapping 450

    8.7 Virtual Memory as a File System Cache 450

    8.8 New Features of the Virtual Memory Implementation 451
    Chapter 9: Virtual Memory 455

    9.1 Design Overview 455

    9.2 Virtual Address Spaces 457

    9.3 Tracing the VM System 466

    9.4 Virtual Address Space Management 467

    9.5 Segment Drivers 476

    9.6 Anonymous Memory 485

    9.7 The Anonymous Memory Layer 487

    9.8 The swapfs Layer 489

    9.9 Virtual Memory Watchpoints 492

    9.10 Changes to Support Large Pages 494

    9.11 MDB Reference 501
    Chapter 10: Physical Memory 503

    10.1 Physical Memory Allocation 503

    10.2 Pages: The Basic Unit of Solaris Memory 506

    10.3 The Page Scanner 516

    10.4 MDB Reference 525
    Chapter 11: Kernel Memory 527

    11.1 Kernel Virtual Memory Layout 527

    11.2 Kernel Memory Allocation 534

    11.3 The Vmem Allocator 552

    11.4 Kernel Memory Allocator Tracing 562

    11.5 MDB Reference 578
    Chapter 12: Hardware Address Translation 581

    12.1 HAT Overview 581

    12.2 The UltraSPARC HAT Layer 583

    12.3 The x64 HAT Layer 625

    12.4 MDB Reference 636
    Chapter 13: Working with Multiple Page Sizes in Solaris 639

    13.1 Determining When to Use Large Pages 639

    13.2 Measuring Application Performance 640

    13.3 Configuring for Multiple Page Sizes 645
    Part Five: File Systems 655Chapter 14: File System Framework 657

    14.1 File System Framework 657

    14.2 Process-Level File Abstractions 658

    14.3 Solaris File System Framework 668

    14.4 File System Modules 672

    14.5 The Virtual File System (vfs) Interface 675

    14.6 The Vnode 685

    14.7 File System I/O 707

    14.8 File Systems and Memory Allocation 718

    14.9 Path-Name Management 722

    14.10 The Directory Name Lookup Cache 726

    14.11 The File System Flush Daemon 734

    14.12 File System Conversion to Solaris 10 734

    14.13 MDB Reference 736
    Chapter 15: The UFS File System 737

    15.1 UFS Development History 737

    15.2 UFS On-Disk Format 739

    15.3 The UFS Inode 751

    15.4 Access Control in UFS 764

    15.5 Extended Attributes in UFS 767

    15.6 Locking in UFS 768

    15.7 Logging 775

    15.8 MDB Reference 790
    Part Six: Platform Specifics 793Chapter 16: Support for NUMA and CMT Hardware 795

    16.1 Memory Hierarchy Designs 796

    16.2 Memory Placement Optimization Framework 799

    16.3 Initial Thread Placement 802

    16.4 Scheduling 802

    16.5 Memory Allocation 803

    16.6 Lgroup Implementation 804

    16.7 MPO APIs 807

    16.8 Locality Group Hierarchy 811

    16.9 MPO Statistics 813

    16.10 MDB Reference 814
    Chapter 17: Locking and Synchronization 815

    17.1 Synchronization 815

    17.2 Parallel Systems Architectures 816

    17.3 Hardware Considerations for Locks and Synchronization 819

    17.4 Introduction to Synchronization Objects 824

    17.5 Mutex Locks 827

    17.6 Reader/Writer Locks 835

    17.7 Turnstiles and Priority Inheritance 840

    17.8 Kernel Semaphores 844

    17.9 DTrace Lockstat Provider 846
    Part Seven: Networking 853Chapter 18: The Solaris Network Stack 855

    18.1 STREAMS and the Network Stack 855

    18.2 Solaris 10 Stack: Design Goals 862

    18.3 Solaris 10 Network Stack Framework 863

    18.4 TCP as an Implementation of the New Framework 870

    18.5 UDP 875

    18.6 Synchronous STREAMS 878

    18.7 IP 880

    18.8 Solaris Device Driver Framework 882

    18.9 Interrupt Model and NIC Speeds 891

    18.10 Summary 895

    18.11 MDB Reference 895
    Part Eight: Kernel Services 899Chapter 19: Clocks and Timers 901

    19.1 The System Clock Thread 901

    19.2 Callouts and Callout Tables 904

    19.3 System Time Facilities 910

    19.4 The Cyclic Subsystem 912
    Chapter 20: Task Queues 927

    20.1 Overview of Task Queues 927

    20.2 Dynamic Task Queues 928

    20.3 Task Queues Kernel Programming Interfaces 932

    20.4 Device Driver Interface for Task Queues 934

    20.5 Task Queue Observability 935

    20.6 Task Queue Implementation Notes 937
    Chapter 21: kmdb Implementation 943

    21.1 Introduction 943
    Appendices 963Appendix A: Kernel Virtual Address Maps 965 Appendix B: Adding a System Call to Solaris 971Appendix C: A Sample Procfs Utility 975 Bibliography 979Index 983


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