List of Figures

• A typical PC motherboard.
• Abstract model of Virtual to Physical address mapping
• Sharing Physical Memory Between Processes
• Three Level Page Tables
• The free_area data structure
• Alpha AXP Page Table Entry
• A Processes Files
• A Processes Virtual Memory
• Pipes
• System V IPC Message Queues
• System V IPC Semaphores
• System V IPC Shared Memory
• Registered Binary Formats
• ELF Executable File Format
• Example PCI Based System
• The PCI Configuration Header
• Type 0 PCI Configuration Cycle
• Type 1 PCI Configuration Cycle
• Linux Kernel PCI Data Structures
• Configuring a PCI System: Part 1
• Configuring a PCI System: Part 2
• Configuring a PCI System: Part 3
• Configuring a PCI System: Part 4
• PCI Configuration Header: Base Address Registers
• A Logical Diagram of Interrupt Routing
• Linux Interrupt Handling Data Structures
• Physical Layout of the EXT2 File system
• EXT2 Inode
• EXT2 Directory
• A Logical Diagram of the Virtual File System
• Registered File Systems
• A Mounted File System
• The Buffer Cache
• Bottom Half Handling Data Structures
• A Task Queue
• System Timers
• Wait Queue
• The List of Kernel Modules