The PCBs of processes are linked together (double linked list) in Linux kernel. There can be some other ways to traverse the process list; you can learn from Internet. After finding the PCB, your ...

The Linux kernel contains a Virtual File System layer which is used during system calls acting on files. The VFS is an indirection layer which handles the file oriented system calls and calls the ...

To measure the degree of performance improvement, I conducted two experiments. Both experiments compared performance of the original Linux kernel and KML. I used the sysenter/sysexit mechanism for ...

The Linux kernel stores high-usage data objects such as pages, buffers, and inodes in data structures known as hash tables. In this report we analyze existing static hash tables to study the benefits ...

In Linux, the kernel runs in ring 0. By setting GDT, the kernel puts its code and data into a separate address space. All other programs run in ring 3 with their data and code in the same address ...

Microsoft has agreed to the addition of its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology to the Linux kernel, according to a Wednesday announcement.. The exFAT code was submitted for "staging ...