Professional Linux Kernel Architecture (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

图书标准信息

• 作者 Wolfgang Mauerer 著
• 出版社 Wiley
• 出版时间 2008-09
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780470343432
• 定价 633.30元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 16开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 1368页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

Findanintroductiontothearchitecture,conceptsandalgorithmsoftheLinuxkernelinProfessionalLinuxKernelArchitecture,aguidetothekernelsourcesandlargenumberofconnectionsamongsubsystems.Findanintroductiontotherelevantstructuresandfunctionsexportedbythekerneltouserland,understandthetheoreticalandconceptualaspectsoftheLinuxkernelandUnixderivatives,andgainadeeperunderstandingofthekernel.Learnhowtoreducethevastamountofinformationcontainedinthekernelsourcesandobtaintheskillsnecessarytounderstandthekernelsources.

【作者简介】

WolfgangMauererisaquantumphysicistwhoseprofessionalinterestsarecenteredaroundquantumcryptography,quantumelectrodynamics,andcompilersfor—youguessedit—quantumarchitectures.Withtheconfirmedcapacityofbeingtheworstexperimentalistintheknownuniverse,hestickstothetheoreticalsideofhisprofession,whichisespeciallyreassuringconsideringhisconstantfearofaccidentallydestroyingtheuniverse.Outsidehisresearchwork,heisfascinatedbyoperatingsystems,andformorethanadecade—startingwithanarticleseriesaboutthekernelin1997—hehasfoundgreatpleasureindocumentingandexplainingLinuxkernelinternals.HeisalsotheauthorofabookabouttypesettingwithLaTeXandhaswrittennumerousarticlesthathavebeentranslatedintosevenlanguagesintotal.Whenhe’snotsubmergedinvastHilbertspacesorlargequantitiesofsourcecode,hetriestotaketheoppositedirection,namely,upward—bethiswithmodelplanes,aparaglider,oronfootwithaniceaxeinhishands:MountainsespeciallyhavethepowertooutrivaleventheLinuxkernel.Consequently,heconsidersplanningandaccomplishingafirst-ascentexpeditiontothevastarcticglaciersofeastGreenlandtobethereallyuniqueachievementinhislife.Beinginterestedineverythingthatisfundamental,heisalsotheauthorofthefirstcompilerforPlankalk¨ul,theworld’searliesthigh-levellanguagedevisedin1942–1946byKonradZuse,thefatherofthecomputer.Asanavidreader,heisproudthatdespitethetwo-digitnumberofcomputerspresentinhislivingroom,thevolumerequiredforbooksstilloccupiesalargershare.

【目录】

Introduction. 

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview. 

Chapter 2: ProcessManagement and Scheduling. 

Chapter 3: Memory Management. 

Chapter 4: Virtual ProcessMemory. 

Chapter 5: Locking and Interprocess Communication. 

Chapter 6: Device Drivers. 

Chapter 7: Modules. 

Chapter 8: The Virtual Filesystem. 

Chapter 9: The Extended Filesystem Family. 

Chapter 10: Filesystems without Persistent Storage.

Chapter 11: Extended Attributes and Access ControlLists. 

Chapter 12: Networks. 

Chapter 13: System Calls. 

Chapter 14: Kernel Activities. 

Chapter 15: Time management. 

Chapter 16: Page and Buffer Cache. 

Chapter 17: Data Synchronization. 

Chapter 18: Page Reclaim and Swapping. 

Chapter 19: Auditing. 

Appendix A: Architecture Specifics. 

Appendix B:Working with the Source Code. 

Appendix C: Notes on C. 

Appendix D: System Startup. 

Appendix E: The ELF Binary Format. 

Appendix F: The Kernel Development Process.Bibliography. 

Index.