Are Linux kernel threads really kernel processes?
I’ve read in many places that Linux creates a kernel thread for each user thread in a Java VM. (I see the term “kernel thread” used in two different ways:
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How to assign USB driver to device
This question is two-fold:
How does a Segmentation Fault work under-the-hood?
I can’t seem to find any information on this aside from “the CPU’s MMU sends a signal” and “the kernel directs it to the offending program, terminating it”.
What is the difference between kernel drivers and kernel modules?
When I do a lspci -k on my Kubuntu with a 3.2.0-29-generic kernel I can see something like this:
Set default kernel in GRUB
How can I pick which kernel GRUB2 should load by default? I recently installed a the linux realtime kernel and now it loads by default. I’d like to load the regular one by default.
disable transparent hugepages
We are installing SAP HANA in a RAID machine. As part of the installation step, it is mentioned that,
MMU-less kernel?
I would like to try compile mmu-less kernel. From what I found in configuration there is no option for such a thing. Is it possible to be done?
How much RAM does the kernel use?
This question is motivated by my shock when I discovered that Mac OS X kernel uses 750MB of RAM.
Can I list the filesystems a running kernel can support?
I’m trying to detect what filesystems a kernel can support. Ideally in a little list of their names but I’ll take anything you’ve got.
how is page size determined in virtual address space?
Linux uses a virtual memory system where all of the addresses are virtual addresses and not physical addresses. These virtual addresses are converted into physical addresses by the processor.