Systems Programming – Kernel Crash vs User-space Process Crash
thelinuxchannel A crash in User-space process (say something like segmentation fault) happens just in process virtual memory address space vs a crash in Kernel space (such as Linux Kernel which is…
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Linux Kernel Tasklets – Big-Picture vs User-Space Threads (pthreads)
Linux Kernel Tasklets and Work queues are somewhat similar to user-space process threads in terms of the functionality and of course not in terms of its operation or its internal…
Linux Kernel User-space Process – Introduction, struct task_struct, virtual memory, IPC, etc
Refer:Linux Kernel Source:struct task_struct data-structure ↗Task state bitmask flags – tsk->state ↗struct task_struct instance example1: TASK_RUNNING, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, TASK_STOPPED ↗struct task_struct instance example2: struct task_struct *p – p->state == TASK_RUNNING…