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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
May. 23, 2016
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 13/10 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/545 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/541 (2013.01); G06F 11/0715 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01); G06F 11/1402 (2013.01); G06F 13/102 (2013.01); G06F 13/24 (2013.01); G06F 13/28 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, including receiving, by a user space driver framework (UDF) library executing from a user space of a memory over a monolithic operating system kernel, a kernel application programming interface (API) call from a device driver executing from the user space. The UDF library then performs an operation corresponding to the kernel API call.