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SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A sledgehammer approach to reuse of legacy device drivers
Device drivers account for the majority of an operating system’s code base, and reuse of the existing driver infrastructure is a pragmatic requirement of any new OS project. New...
Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
TwinDrivers: semi-automatic derivation of fast and safe hypervisor network drivers from guest OS drivers
In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a virtual machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor, for reasons of safety and reduction in software engineering...
Aravind Menon, Simon Schubert, Willy Zwaenepoel
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
XFI: Software Guards for System Address Spaces
XFI is a comprehensive protection system that offers both flexible access control and fundamental integrity guarantees, at any privilege level and even for legacy code in commodit...
Úlfar Erlingsson, George C. Necula, Mart&ia...
IWNAS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Optimal Implementation of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) in Linux Kernel
To protect data and recover data in case of failures, Linux operating system has built-in MD device that implements RAID architectures. Such device can recover data in case of sin...
Xu Li, Changsheng Xie, Qing Yang
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The design and implementation of microdrivers
Device drivers commonly execute in the kernel to achieve high performance and easy access to kernel services. However, this comes at the price of decreased reliability and increas...
Vinod Ganapathy, Matthew J. Renzelmann, Arini Bala...