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MIC: An Interdomain Call Mechanism for Linux
Overview MIC (Mechanism for Interdomain Calls) is an implementation of the lightweight remote procedure call mechanism in Linux. It introduces several additional functions in the Linux system call interface, enabling a thread to invoke procedures located in other address spaces of the same machine. To this end, the server domain has to register its public procedures in the kernel and the client domains must get access to those entry points before invoking them, ensuring in this way that the kernel will be able to map the caller's marshalled arguments in the server domain when the invocation proceeds. The new system calls are provided by a loadable module which facilitates the portability of this mechanism between different versions of the Linux kernel.
| Publisher | Universidad Politecnica de Valencia | File Format | |
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| Date Published | April 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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