Linux Kernel Architecture

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Index

dynamic ticks

filesystems and, 406

identifying, 397–399

opening for block devices, 425–427

opening for character devices, 409–411

random access files and, 524

standard file operations for block devices,

408–409

standard file operations for character

devices, 407–408

device ID, PCI devices, 456

device model, representation of devices,

449

device number, identifying PCI devices,

455

device special files.Seedevice files

devices

accessing system devices, 401

block devices.Seeblock devices

character devices.Seecharacter devices

clock event devices.Seeclock event

devices

PCI, 456

registering bus devices, 453

representation of bus devices,

449–451

tick devices.Seetick devices

USB, 464–465

devices, network

data structures for, 755–759

registering, 759–760

representation of, 755

difftool, 1163–1164

Dijkstra,E.W.,350

direct reclaim, 1029

directories, Ex2

classic directory allocation, 634

creating/deleting inodes, 628–630

deleting inodes, 634–636

registering inodes, 630–634

representation of, 601–604

directories,proc

general system information, 648–650

network information, 650–651

system control parameters, 651–652

directories, sysfs

entries, 690–693

traversing, 703

directories, VFS

directory information, 540–541

directory trees, 549–552

directory entry cache

cache organization, 544–545

operations, 545–546

overview of, 542

standard functions, 546–547

structure of, 542–544

disk-based filesystems, 520

distributed applications, race conditions

and, 349

do_execvefunction, 79–83

do_follow_linkfunction, 569–570

do_fork

copy_processfunction and, 68–75

implementing, 66–67

do_lookupfunction, 568

documenting code, in kernel development,

1276–1277

domain scheduling, scheduler, 123,

126–127

double indirection, 590

doubly linked lists, C programming,

1209–1214

dynamic linking, ELF, 1263–1265

dynamic ticks, 933–943

configuration options and, 896

data structures, 934

for high-resolution systems, 938–939

for low-resolution systems, 935

overview of, 933–934

stopping/starting periodic ticks,

939–943

switching to, 935–936