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CACM
1999
13 years 7 months ago
1999
uire an abstraction layer, without paying the performance penalty paid by microkernels. By allowing for kernel modules, hardware-specific code can often be confined to a module, ke...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
There can be no doubt that a great many technologies have been added to Linux TM over the past ten years. What is less well-known is that it is often necessary to introduce a larg...
DSN
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
2003
IEEE
This paper describes an experimental study of Linux kernel behavior in the presence of errors that impact the instruction stream of the kernel code. Extensive error injection exper...
CCS
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2005
ACM
We present a technique for automatic placement of authorization hooks, and apply it to the Linux security modules (LSM) framework. LSM is a generic framework which allows diverse ...
ISCAPDCS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
The Linux kernel 2.6.23 scheduler includes substantial changes that may entice researchers with no prior interest in Linux to attempt to understand or modify its behavior. Often, ...