Related Books and Papers

The following books and papers are recommended and related to the tasks that you need to perform:

Vahalia, Uresh. UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers. Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN 0-13-021034-0
Mauro, Jim and McDougall, Richard. Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. Prentice Hall PTR, 2006. ISBN 0-13-156819-8
Mauro, Jim and McDougall, Richard. Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Architecture. Prentice Hall PTR, 2000. ISBN 0-13-022496-5
The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 9. Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN 0–13–825001–4
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual. Advanced Micro Devices, 2006. Available at http://developer.amd.com/.
Pentium Pro Family Developer's Manual, Volumes 1-3. Intel Corporation, 1996. ISBN 1-55512-259-0 (Volume 1) , ISBN 1-55512-260-4 (Volume 2) , ISBN 1-55512-261-2 (Volume 3)
Bonwick, Jeff, and Jonathan Adams. Magazines and Vmem: Extending the Slab Allocator to Many CPUs and Arbitrary Resourceso. Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2001. Available at http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix01/full_papers/bonwick/bonwick.pdf.
Bonwick, Jeff. The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator. Proceedings of the Summer 1994 Usenix Conference, 1994. ISBN 9–99–452010–5. Available at http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/bonwick.html.
SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual. Sun Microsystems, 2002.
x86 Assembly Language Reference Manual. Sun Microsystems, 2005.
Writing Device Drivers. Sun Microsystems, 2008.
STREAMS Programming Guide. Sun Microsystems, 2000.
Solaris 64-bit Developer’s Guide. Sun Microsystems, 2000.
Linker and Libraries Guide. Sun Microsystems, 2007.

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