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EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Ksplice allows system administrators to apply patches to their operating system kernels without rebooting. Unlike previous hot update systems, Ksplice operates at the object code ...
USENIX
2003
13 years 11 months ago
2003
Read-copy update (RCU) allows lock-free read-only access to data structures that are concurrently modified on SMP systems. Despite the concurrent modifications, read-only access...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
Device drivers commonly execute in the kernel to achieve high performance and easy access to kernel services. However, this comes at the price of decreased reliability and increas...
CJ
2004
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Digital signatures have been proposed by several researchers as a way of preventing execution of malicious code. In this paper we propose a general architecture for performing the...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking prim...