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HP-UX 11i Internals
Chris CooperChris Moore
HP Professional Books
HP-UX 11i Internals
HP-UX under the hood: practical insight for optimization and troubleshooting
To maximize the performance, efficiency, and reliability of your HP-UX sysem, you need to know what's going on under the hood. HP-UX 11i Internals goes beyond generic UNIX internals, showing exactly how HP-UX works in PA-RISC environments.
HP experts Cooper and Moore systematically illuminate HP-UX kernel data structures and algorithms for memory management, process and thread scheduling, I/O control, files and file systems, resource management, and more. They focus on HP-UX 11i, while also offering valuable insight for those using earlier versions.
Whether you administer HP-UX, tune it, troubleshoot it, or write kernel modules for it, you'll find HP-UX 11i Internals indispensable.
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The HP-UX Kernel: Basic Organization
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Listings.
1. PA-RISC 2.0 Architecture.
RISC Architecture. Hardware Modules. Registers. Virtual Memory Support. Address Translation. Interruptions. Summary.
Register Usage. PA-RISC Instructions. Procedure Call Model. Procedure Return Model. Stack Usage. Summary.
A Generic Overview. All I/O Is File I/O. Abstraction Layers. Some Generic Kernel Techniques. The HP-UX Kernel Overview. Fundamental Kernel Data Structures: A First Pass. Kernel Process Tables. The Kernel File System Tables. The Kernel Input/Output Tables. Drivers and Switch Tables. Summary.
The Players. A Process and Its Threads. Threading Models and HP-UX. The System Call Interface. Summary.
A Process and Its Resources. The proc Table. The kthread Table. The Process's Logical View. Memory Windows. Building the Logical map. Process/Thread Scheduling. Run Queues. Summary.
Types of Memory. The System's Virtual Address Space. Virtual-to-Physical Page Tables. The Kernel View: The Hashtable. Shared Objects. The b-tree. broot, bnodes, and chunks. Page Lists. Connecting the Kernel View to the Process View. Keeping Track of Free Physical Page Frames. Variable Page Size. Physical Memory Allocator at HP-UX 11.0. Summary.
Pages on Demand. Monitoring Free Memory. A Thief in the Night: vhand. Reservation Versus Allocation. Pseudo-Swap. Device Swap. File System Swap. Swap Priority. Tracking swap in the Kernel Structures. Summary.
File System Concepts. The New and Improved UNIX File System. The Kernel View of File Systems. Summary.
The Birth of a Process. A Historic Look at the fork() Call. The fork1() Kernel Routine. Process and Thread States: Idle Hands. Process Identity Crisis: The exec() System Call. Shared Memory Objects Revisited. The exit() System Call Mechanics. Summary.
PA-RISC I/O Architecture. I/O Framework. I/O Odds and Ends. Summary.
LVM Design Concept. Disk-Resident Data Structures. LVM: The Kernel View. Summary.
Hardware Overview. Multiprocessing Data Structures. Synchronization. Summary.
The Callout Table. Kernel Memory Allocation. Summary.
Signal Data Structures. Signal Anticipation. Signal Delivery. Signal Recognition. Signal Handler Launch. Summary.
ISL: The Initial System Loader. HPUXBOOT: The Secondary Loader. Real-Mode Initialization. Virtual Mode Initialization. Summary.
adb. q4. Summary.