Linux relies on appropriate hardware devices to maintain time. These hardware devices can be categorized broadly into two types: system clock and timers.
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
- Comprehending Processes, Address Space, and Threads
- Processes
- Process descriptors
- Kernel stack
- The issue of stack overflow
- Process creation
- Kernel threads
- Process status and termination
- Namespaces and cgroups
- Summary
- Deciphering the Process Scheduler
- Signal Management
- Memory Management and Allocators
- Filesystems and File I/O
- Interprocess Communication
- Virtual Memory Management
- Kernel Synchronization and Locking
- Interrupts and Deferred Work
- Clock and Time Management
- Module Management
Timing hardware
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