CASE STUDY 1:

UNIX, Linux, and Android

Chapter 10

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 History of UNIX and Linux
• UNICS
• PDP-11 UNIX
• Portable UNIX
• Berkeley UNIX
• Standard UNIX
• MINIX
• Linux

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 Linux Goals

• Simplicity, elegance, consistency

• Power and flexibility
• Lack of useless redundancy

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 Interfaces to Linux

Figure 10-1. The layers in a Linux system.

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 The Shell
• Command line interface
– Faster
– More powerful
– Easily extensible
• First word entered will be a program name
– Commands take arguments
– Wild card characters used
– Filters, pipes used
• Shell scripts

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 Linux Utility Programs (1)
1. File and directory manipulation commands.
2. Filters.
3. Program development tools, such as editors
and compilers.
4. Text processing.
5. System administration.
6. Miscellaneous.

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Linux Utility
Programs (2)

Figure 10-2. A few of the

common Linux utility
programs required by
POSIX.

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 Kernel Structure

Figure 10-3. Structure of the Linux kernel

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Processes: Fundamental Concepts (1)

Figure 10-4. Process creation in Linux.

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Processes: Fundamental Concepts (2)

Figure 10-5. Some of the signals required by POSIX.

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 Process Management
System Calls in Linux (1)

Figure 10-6. Some system calls relating to processes. The return code s is −1 if an error has occurred,
pid is a process ID, and residual is the remaining time in the previous alarm. The parameters are
what the names suggest.

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 Process Management
System Calls in Linux (2)

Figure 10-7. A highly simplified shell.

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 Implementation of Processes and
Threads in Linux (1)
Process descriptors
1. Scheduling parameters
2. Memory image
3. Signals
4. Machine registers
5. System call state
6. File descriptor table
7. Accounting
8. Kernel stack
9. Miscellaneous
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 Implementation of Processes and
Threads in Linux (2)

Figure 10-8. The steps in executing the

command ls typed to the shell.
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 Threads in Linux

Figure 10-9. Bits in the sharing flags bitmap.

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 Scheduling in Linux (1)
Three classes of threads for scheduling
purposes:
1.Real-time FIFO.
2.Real-time round robin.
3.Timesharing.

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Scheduling in
Linux (2)

Figure 10-10. Illustration of

Linux run queue data
structures for (a) the Linux
O(1) scheduler

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 Scheduling in Linux (3)

Figure 10-10. Illustration of Linux run queue data structures

for (b) the Completely Fair Scheduler
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 Booting Linux

Figure 10-11. The sequence of processes used

to boot some Linux systems.
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 Memory Management
Fundamental Concepts (1)

Figure 10-12. (a) Process A’s virtual address space.

(b) Physical memory. (c) Process B’s virtual address space.
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 Memory Management
Fundamental Concepts (2)

Figure 10-13. Two processes can share a mapped file.

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 Memory Management
System Calls in Linux

Figure 10-14. Some system calls relating to memory

management. The return code s is −1 if an error has occurred; a
and addr are memory addresses, len is a length, prot controls
protection, flags are miscellaneous bits, fd is a file descriptor,
and offset is a file offset.

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Physical Memory Management (1)

Linux Memory Zones:

1.ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32
2.ZONE_NORMAL
3.ZONE_HIGHMEM

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 Physical Memory Management (2)

Figure 10-15. Linux main memory representation.

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 Physical Memory Management (3)

Figure 10-16. Linux uses four-level page tables.

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 Memory Allocation Mechanisms

Figure 10-17. Operation of the buddy algorithm

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 The Page Replacement Algorithm

Figure 10-18. Page states considered in the

page frame replacement algorithm.
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 I/O in Linux – Networking (1)

Figure 10-19. The uses of sockets for networking

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 I/O in Linux – Networking (2)

Common socket types:

1.Reliable connection-oriented byte stream.
2.Reliable connection-oriented packet stream.
3.Unreliable packet transmission.

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Input/Output System Calls in Linux

Figure 10-20. The main POSIX calls

for managing the terminal.
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 Implementation of I/O in Linux (1)

Figure 10-21. Some of the file operations supported for

typical character devices.
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 Implementation of I/O in Linux (2)

Figure 10-22. The Linux I/O system showing

one file system in detail.
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 Linux File System:
Fundamental Concepts (1)

Figure 10-23. Some important directories

found in most Linux systems.
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 Linux File System:
Fundamental Concepts (2)

Figure 10-24. (a) Before linking. (b) After linking.

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 Linux File System:
Fundamental Concepts (3)

Figure 10-25. (a) Separate file systems. (b) After mounting.

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 Linux File System:
Fundamental Concepts (4)

Figure 10-26. (a) A file with one lock.

(b) Addition of a second lock. (c) A third lock.

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 File System Calls in Linux (1)

Figure 10-27. Some system calls relating to files. The return code s is −1 if an error has occurred;
fd is a file descriptor, and position is a file offset. The parameters should be self explanatory.

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 File System Calls in Linux (2)

Figure 10-28. The fields returned by the stat system call.

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 File System Calls in Linux (3)

Figure 10-29. Some system calls relating to directories. The return code
s is −1 if an error has occurred; dir identifies a directory stream, and
dirent is a directory entry. The parameters should be self explanatory.

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 The Linux Virtual File System

Figure 10-30. File system abstractions supported by the VFS.

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 The Linux Ext2 File System (1)

Figure 10-31. Disk layout of the Linux ext2 file system.

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 The Linux Ext2 File System (2)

Figure 10-32. (a) A Linux directory with three files. (b) The
same directory after the file voluminous has been removed.
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 The Linux Ext2 File System (3)

10-33. Some fields in the i-node structure in Linux

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 The Linux Ext2
File System (4)

Figure 10-34. The

relation between the
file descriptor table,
the open file
description table, and
the i-node table.
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 NFS Architecture

Figure 10-35. Examples of remote mounted file systems.

Directories are shown as squares and files are shown as circles.
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 NFS Implementation

Figure 10-36. The NFS layer structure

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 Linux Security
Fundamental Concepts

Figure 10-37. Some example file protection modes.

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 Security System Calls in Linux

Figure 10-38. Some system calls relating to security. The return

code s is −1 if an error has occurred; uid and gid are the UID and
GID, respectively. The parameters should be self explanatory.
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 Android – Design Goals
1. Open-source platform for mobile devices
2. Support 3rd party apps with robust, stable API
3. 3rd party apps compete on level playing field
4. Users need not deeply trust 3rd party apps
5. Support mobile user interaction
6. Manage app processes for users
7. Encourage apps to interoperate, collaborate
8. Full general-purpose OS
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 Android Architecture (1)

Figure 10-39. Android process hierarchy.

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 Android Architecture (2)

Figure 10-40. Publishing and interacting with system services.

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 Wake Locks
Contrast idle CPU, true sleep
1.Idle state may use more power than true sleep
2.Idle CPU can wake up at any moment if work
becomes available
3.Idle CUP does not tell you that you can turn off
other hardware not needed in true sleep

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 Dalvik

Figure 10-41. Creating a new Dalvik process from zygote.

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 Binder IPC

Figure 10-42. Binder

IPC architecture.

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 Binder Kernel Module (1)

Figure 10-43. Basic Binder IPC transaction

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 Binder Kernel Module (2)

Figure 10-44. Binder cross-process object mapping.

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 Binder Kernel Module (3)

Figure 10-45. Transferring Binder objects between processes.

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 Binder User-Space API (1)
User-space object-oriented library
1.IBinder is an abstract interface for a Binder
object
2.Binder is a concrete Binder object
3.Parcel is a container for reading and writing
data that is in a Binder transaction.

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 Binder User-Space API (2)
Three classes now make it fairly easy to write
IPC code:
•Subclass from Binder.
1.Implement onTransact to decode and execute
incoming calls.
2.Implement corresponding code to create a
Parcel that can be passed to that object’s
transact method.

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 Binder User-Space API (3)

Figure 10-46. Binder user-space API.

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 Binder Interfaces and AIDL (1)

Figure 10-47. Simple interface described in AIDL.

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 Binder Interfaces and AIDL (2)

Figure 10-48. Binder interface inheritance hierarchy.

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 Binder Interfaces and AIDL (3)

Figure 10-49. Full path of an AIDL-based Binder IPC.

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 Android Applications (1)

Figure 10-50. Basic service manager AIDL interface.

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 Android Applications (2)
Contents of an apk
1.A manifest describing what the application is,
what it does, and how to run it
2.Resources needed by the application
3.The code itself
4.Signing information, securely identifying the
author

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 Android Applications (3)

Figure 10-51. Basic structure of AndroidManifest.xml.

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 Android Applications (4)

Figure 10-51. Basic structure of AndroidManifest.xml.

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 Activities (1)

Figure 10-52. Starting an email application’s main activity.

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 Activities (2)

Figure 10-53. Starting the camera application after email.

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 Activities (3)

Figure 10-54. Removing the email process to

reclaim RAM for the camera.
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 Activities (4)

Figure 10-55. Sharing a

camera picture
through the email
application.
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 Activities (5)

Figure 10-56. Returning to the email application.

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 Services (1)
A service has two distinct identities:
1.It can be a self-contained long-running
background operation.
2.It can serve as a connection point for other
applications or the system to perform rich
interaction with the application

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 Services (2)

Figure 10-57. Starting an application service.

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 Services (3)

Figure 10-58. Interface for controlling a sync service’s sync

interval.
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 Services (4)

Figure 10-59. Binding to an application service.

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 Receivers

Figure 10-60. Sending a broadcast to application receivers.

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 Content Providers

Figure 10-61. Interacting with a content provider.

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 Application Sandboxes
Security (1)

Figure 10-62. Common UID assignments in Android

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 Security (2)

Figure 10-63. Requesting and using a permission.

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 Security (3)

Figure 10-64. Accessing data without a permission.

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 Security (4)

Figure 10-65. Sharing a

picture using a content
provider.

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 Security (5)

Figure 10-66. Adding a

picture attachment
using a content provider.
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 Starting Processes

Figure 10-67. Steps in launching a new application process.

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 Process Lifecycle

Figure 10-68. Process importance categories.

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 Process Dependencies (1)

Figure 10-69. Typical state of process importance

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 Process Dependencies (2)

Figure 10-70. Process state after email stops using camera

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Chapter 10

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