Re: want to be a kernel developer

2017-02-28 Thread Chauhan, Himanshu
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:59 PM, sourav mondal wrote: > hi, > I want to be a kernel developer.I don't really know much about linux kernel. > can anyone suggests me some good books that can help to learn more about the > kernel development? > Books alone won't help. You will need hands on experienc

Re: Finding the interrupt vector of a given IRQ

2012-05-27 Thread Chauhan, Himanshu
AKAIK I think is possible. For example int 3 in x86 is actually an interrupt so to say. I don't want to go in other details about exception vs interrupts and stack saving. But in short you can achieve what you are trying here. Search for breakpoint handler probably in entry.S and from the trace ba

[ANNOUNCE] Xvisor: eXtensible Versatile hypervISOR

2011-10-28 Thread Chauhan, Himanshu
We are pleased to announcing Xvisor v0.1.0, a new open source bare-metal hypervisor, which aims towards providing virtualization solution, which is light-weight, portable, and flexible with small memory foot print and less virtualization overhead. It is distributed under GNU Public License (GPLv2).

Re: how does linux restores a thread's stack pointer, program counter and return address.

2011-10-04 Thread Chauhan, Himanshu
Hi Smital, > I am keen to find out how does linux restores a thread's stack pointer, > program counter and return address. Isn't it that each thread has a different task_struct and at schedule r29 is reloaded from its own independent task_struct? Also, while scheduling pc and r31 are stored at t