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Fast, Flexible, and Practical Kernel Extensions

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The ability to safely extend OS kernel functionality is a longstanding goal in OS design, with the widespread use of the eBPF framework in Linux and Windows demonstrating the benefits of such extensibility. However, existing solutions for kernel extensibility (including eBPF) are limited and constrain users either in the extent of functionality that they can offload to the kernel or the performance overheads incurred by their extensions.

Source: ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)

DOI: 10.1145/3694715.3695950

Authors: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Rishabh Iyer, Sanidhya Kashyap

Institutions: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: Security and Verification in Computing

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Award: Application-Informed Synchronization