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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2004
Yoshio Frank Turner, Redwood City, CA (US);
Dinesh Kumar Subhraveti, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Gopalakrishnan Janakiraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jose Renato Santos, San Jose, CA (US);
Yoshio Frank Turner, Redwood City, CA (US);
Dinesh Kumar Subhraveti, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Gopalakrishnan Janakiraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jose Renato Santos, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of a method of performing a kernel level task upon initial execution of a child process at a user level begins with setting an instruction pointer for an initial child process instruction to an instruction to enter a kernel level. The method continues with beginning the child process which places a return value in a register for the child process and which causes the child process to enter the kernel level. The method concludes with executing a system call having a system call number of the return value. The system call comprises the kernel level task.