On Apr 26, 10:27 am, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:50:59 AM UTC-4, MX wrote:
>
> >  The operations of reading cache data  can 100% be sensed in the
> > Kernel layer?
>
> Your line of questioning doesn't really make any sense.
>
> Some operations ordinarily involve kernel syscalls, or trigger conditions
> which the kernel must handle.  Others do not.
>
> However, the kernel can (if it "wishes" to) force the program to execute
> just one instruction at a time, with the kernel watching.
>
> Even something that involves the kernel may not be "sensed" unless some
> aspect of the kernel has been told to consider the fact that it happens
> noteworthy.
>
> So the real question is if the kernel has been primed to be looking for
> some type of operation or not.
>
> For various aspects of that, the answer is "usually", "depening on runtime
> options", "depending on compile time options" or "no, but you could modify
> it to"
Thanks.

>From your statement, it seems the kernel has the potential ability to
watch all the operations that it wants to.

Well, Must the upper layer operations be involved with Kernel ?  Can
they be done without the involvement of Kernel in Android?

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