78
Voted
CACM
1999
14 years 10 months ago
1999
uire an abstraction layer, without paying the performance penalty paid by microkernels. By allowing for kernel modules, hardware-specific code can often be confined to a module, ke...
76
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ACSAC
2004
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
In current extensible monolithic operating systems, loadable kernel modules (LKM) have unrestricted access to all portions of kernel memory and I/O space. As a result, kernel-modu...