Related Books and Papers

The following books and papers are recommended and related to the tasks that you need to perform:

• Uresh Vahalia; UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers; Prentice Hall; 2010; ISBN 978-0130210340

• Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro; Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture; Prentice Hall; 2006; ISBN 978-0131482098

• Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg; Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris; Prentice Hall; 2006; ISBN 978-0131568198

• David L. Weaver (editor); OpenSPARC Internals; Lulu.com; 2008; ISBN 978-0557019748

• SPARC International; The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 9; Prentice Hall; 1993; ISBN 978-0130992277

• AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual; Advanced Micro Devices; 2006; available at http://developer.amd.com/

• Intel Corporation; Pentium Pro Family Developer's Manual; McGraw-Hill Companies; 1996; ISBN 978-1555122607

• Jeff Bonwick, Jonathan Adams; Magazines and Vmem: Extending the Slab Allocator to Many CPUs and Arbitrary Resourceso; Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference; 2001; available at http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix01/full_papers/bonwick/bonwick_html/

• Jeff Bonwick; The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator; Proceedings of the Summer 1994 Usenix Conference; 1994; available at http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/bonwick.html

• SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual

• x86 Assembly Language Reference Manual

• Writing Device Drivers

• STREAMS Programming Guide

• Solaris 64-bit Developer’s Guide

• Linker and Libraries Guide

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