* [9fans] new version of the kernel notes
@ 2000-11-24 14:45 nemo
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From: nemo @ 2000-11-24 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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It's at the usual url. I think that at least the starting up chapter
is mostly fixed; with figures included. now fixing the following ones.
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Fixed since the first version
Since the last version of this document, these things have been fixed.
* Introduction chapter:
+ It now says which kernel tree the notes refer to (3rd
edition; june release).
+ Figures added for Intel stuff
+ Brief description of assembler.
* Starting up chapter: I consider this chapter as fixed now.
+ Note about why using 9load.
+ 9load jumps to tokzero as I was saying, but that does not set
the PC to KZERO.
+ fixes in 9load probe routine.
+ fixes about the mapping for the Mach structure.
+ fixes in ram scanning.
+ Small section about PC hardware added.
+ Horrendous bug about how do QIDs work fixed (I said that vers
was used to detect removed-and-recreated files, which is not
the case; In fact I think I understood that was not the case
long ago before starting this document. Too sleepy that day?
Too few caffeine? Who knows?).
+ pageinit has nothing to do with software for paging, it is
just initializing the page allocator. The starting up chapter
was saying it had to do with software MMU, although on the
next paragraph it was described and the reader could know
what it really does.
+ psstate only holds the process state for ps.
+ process groups have name spaces, not processes. The
description was confussing.
+ Some figures added.
+ Note added about the check for pidalloc wrap.
+ Note about why to reserve room in the bottom of the kernel
stack.
+ Fix about eflags in touser.
* Process chapter: still fixing it.
+ Note added about why to use a scheduler stack.
+ Note added about why to have two scheduling classes.
+ Note added about other synch. means.
+ postnote fix.
+ Note for wakeup in pexit.
+ procstopwait fix.
+ Some figures added.
* Files chapter: still fixing it.
+ Note added about why to have a limit on file descriptors.
+ Non-empty directories can be removed.
+ Hint about saveregisters.
+ The example for ``..'' now uses walk and not cd, which was
unfortunate because cd does not crosses the mount point.
+ Note about why a read from a union must clone the mounted
channels anyway. The comment could be suggesting that the
clone could be avoided, that is not the case.
+ Note about how to avoid the CHDIR trick for exportfs.
+ Nested calls to the mount driver are not a problem; msg sizes
are.
+ Note about coherence of distributed caches.
+ Note about using just pages to do caching.
* Memory chapter: still fixing it.
+ Note about why to use just physical memory for caching remote
files.
+ Note about why the pager avoids waiting for locks.
+ Note about the lock+unlock when paging-in.
+ Note fix about the use of share while cloning segments.
+ Note fix about the check for ESEG while attaching segments.
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