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CGO
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Isla Vista Heap Sizing: Using Feedback to Avoid Paging
Managed runtime environments (MREs) employ garbage collection (GC) for automatic memory management. However, GC induces pressure on the virtual memory (VM) manager, since it may t...
Chris Grzegorczyk, Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz, Ri...
IWMM
2007
Springer
110views Hardware» more  IWMM 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Path: page access tracking to improve memory management
Traditionally, operating systems use a coarse approximation of memory accesses to implement memory management algorithms by monitoring page faults or scanning page table entries. ...
Reza Azimi, Livio Soares, Michael Stumm, Thomas Wa...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Hardware Enforcement of Application Security Policies Using Tagged Memory
Computers are notoriously insecure, in part because application security policies do not map well onto traditional protection mechanisms such as Unix user accounts or hardware pag...
Nickolai Zeldovich, Hari Kannan, Michael Dalton, C...
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Secure program execution via dynamic information flow tracking
Dynamic information flow tracking is a hardware mechanism to protect programs against malicious attacks by identifying spurious information flows and restricting the usage of sp...
G. Edward Suh, Jae W. Lee, David Zhang, Srinivas D...
SIGOPSE
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
New Directions for Integrated Circuit Cards Operating Systems
Integrated circuit cards or smart cards are now well-known. Applications such as electronic purses (cash units stored in cards), subscriber identification cards used in cellular te...
Pierre Paradinas, Jean-Jacques Vandewalle