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The Pentium Architecture - Support for Multiprocessing
> Operating Systems - Edi Shmueli
Abstract
General purpose processors supply a set of mechanisms to support
multiprocessing operating systems. Among these mechanisms are the
memory management facilities, protection mechanism, interrupts
handling mechanisms and even mechanisms for process management.
We will cover these mechanisms as they are provided by the Pentium
processor family, and briefly discuss their usage by the Linux
operating system.
Keywords: paging, segmentation, privilege/protection rings, interrupts
and exceptions, context switching.
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