Friday, September 9, 2016

How does an OS control entry and exit from the kernel?

The Multics paper talks about the mechanisms used by the OS and hardware to control entering and exiting a kernel.

If you've never had a chance to study that topic, I have some lecture notes that might be of help:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/537/lecturenotes/enterexit.html

See you in class.

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