[CSE]  Advanced Operating Systems 
 COMP9242 2002/S2 
UNSW

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L4 System Calls

  1. ipc()
    • Message passing, combining sending and receiving operations
  2. fpage_unmap()
    • Revoke mappings
  3. id_nearest()
    • Determination own and target TID
  4. task_new()
    • Create/delete task/address space
  5. lthread_ex_regs()
    • Create/manipulate thread
  6. thread_switch()
    • Explicit time-slice donation
  7. thread_schedule()
    • Setting/enquiring scheduling parameters



Gernot Heiser 2002-08-07