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Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
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This paper describes the motivation, architecture and performance of SPIN, an extensible operating system. SPIN provides an extension infrastructure, together with a core set of extensible services, that allow applications to safely change the operating system's interface and implementation. Extensions allow an application to specialize the underlying operating system in order to achieve a particular level of performance and functionality. SPIN uses language and link-time mechanisms to inexpensively export fine-grained interfaces to operating system services. Extensions are written in a type safe language, and are dynamically linked into the operating system kernel. This approach offers extensions rapid access to system services, while protecting the operating system code executing within the kernel address space. SPIN and its extensions are written in Modula-3 and run on DEC Alpha workstations.
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- Bershad, B. N., Savage, S., Pardyak, P., Sirer, E. G., Fiuczynski, M. E., Becker, D., Chambers, C., & Eggers, S.
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- Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles - SOSP '95
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- ACM Press
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- 1995
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- 267-283
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- W2083469471
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- 61.99
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- conference paper
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- en
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