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1.Classroom maps Memory maps to executables and library files Get The Hang $sudo cat /proc/971/maps 00400000-00408000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 7422174 /sbin/syslogd 00607000-00608000 rw-p 00007000 08:01 7422174 /sbin/syslogd 00608000-00609000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 01429000-0144a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7fd360fa5000-7fd360fb0000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1466895 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.13.so 7fd360fb0000-7fd3611af000 —p 0000b000 08:01 1466895 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.13.so 7fd3611af000-7fd3611b0000 r–p 0000a000 08:01 1466895 …

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1. mca_disable_dma – channel to disable DMA on void mca_disable_dma(unsigned int dmanr); dmanr DMA channel 2. Classroom First of all, DMA (per se) is almost entirely obsolete. As originally defined, DMA controllers depended on thefact that the bus had separate lines to assert for memory read/write, and I/O read/write. The DMA controller took advantage of …

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1. write_inode_now – write an inode to disk This function commits an inode to disk immediately if it is dirty. This is primarily needed by knfsd.

1. vfs_lock_file – file byte range lock 2. Manual int vfs_lock_file(struct file * filp, unsigned int cmd, struct file_lock * fl, struct file_lock * conf); filp The file to apply the lock to cmd type of locking operation (F_SETLK, F_GETLK, etc.) fl The lock to be applied conf Place to return a copy of the …

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[PATCH] udf: Fix deadlock when converting file from in-ICB one to normal one During BKL removal, conversion of files from in-ICB format to normal format got broken. We call ->writepage with i_data_sem held but udf_get_block() also acquires i_data_sem thus creating A-A deadlock. We fix the problem by dropping i_data_sem before calling ->writepage() which is safe …

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1. mutex_init Initialize the mutex to unlocked state. 2. Classroom The point of a mutex is to synchronize two threads. When you have two threads attempting to access a single resource, the general pattern is to have the first block of code attempting access to set the mutex before entering the code. When the second …

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