Jason Perlow, Editorial Director at theLinux Foundation interviews Thomas Gleixner, Linux Foundation Fellow, CTO ofLinutronix GmbH, and project leader of the PR...
Previously we looked at how the kernel manages virtual memory for a user process, but files and I/O were left out. This post covers the important and often misu...
Modern processors are generally able to enter states in which the execution of a program is suspended and instructions belonging to it are not fetched from memo...
inux processes are implemented in the kernel as instances of task_struct, the process descriptor. The mm field in task_struct points to the memory descriptor, m...