Shadow Kernels
| Autor: | Lucian Carata, James Snee, Nikilesh Balakrishnan, Ripduman Sohan, Oliver R. A. Chick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Graph kernel
Software_OPERATINGSYSTEMS sysfs Computer science 020206 networking & telecommunications Hypervisor 02 engineering and technology Kernel virtual address space computer.software_genre Configfs Kernel preemption 020204 information systems Kernel (statistics) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Operating system General Earth and Planetary Sciences Tree kernel computer General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | APSys |
| ISSN: | 0163-5980 |
| Popis: | Existing operating systems share a common kernel text section amongst all processes. It is not possible to perform kernel specialization or tuning such that different applications execute text optimized for their kernel use despite the benefits of kernel specialization for performance guided optimization, exokernels, kernel fastpaths, and cheaper hardware access. Current specialization primitives involve system wide changes to kernel text, which can have adverse effects on other processes sharing the kernel due to the global side-effects. We present shadow kernels: a primitive that allows multiple kernel text sections to coexist in a contemporary operating system. By remapping kernel virtual memory on a context-switch, or for individual system calls, we specialize the kernel on a fine-grained basis. Our implementation of shadow kernels uses the Xen hypervisor so can be applied to any operating system that runs on Xen. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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