Fault Isolation for Linux Device Drivers (리눅스 디바이스 드라이버를 위한 오류 격리)

Sunghoon Son (손성훈)

doi:10.9708/jksci.2017.22.04.001

Fault Isolation for Linux Device Drivers

Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
Abbr : JKSCI
2017, 22(4), pp.1-8
DOI : 10.9708/jksci.2017.22.04.001
Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science
Received : February 23, 2017
Accepted : March 20, 2017
Published : April 28, 2017

Sunghoon Son ¹

¹상명대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we propose a fault isolation system for device drivers of the Linux operating system. High availability systems impose stringent requirements upon Linux operating system. Especially device drivers can be a major source of operating system instability and many times contribute to system degradation and outages. The proposed fault isolation system identifies the occurrence of the memory-related faults in device driver and isolates it from the kernel. By operating at the early stage of the page fault handler in Linux kernel, the system detects which module causes fault and isolates it transparently from the remaining part of the kernel. By experiments, we show that the proposed system efficiently detects faults incurred by device driver, isolates the device driver and the process which accessed the driver module from the kernel.

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Fault, Fault isolation, Linux device driver, High availability

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