Design of IPC and System Calls for Multi-Process Micro-Kernel Embedded OS on ARM

Abstract:

This paper describes the design and implementation of IPC (Inter-Process Communication) and system calls for an embedded OS in technical details, including the overview of micro-kernel OS, mechanism of inter-process communication, and implementation of message passing as well as system calls upon it. The IPC and system calls are designed for the ARM based multi-process micro-kernel embedded operating system developed by the author of this paper on Linux platform with GNU tool chain. The design of the system call service function to create a child process identical to the parent, do_fork (), is provided as an example. Practices prove that multi-process micro-kernel mechanism is technically feasible on embedded machines.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 347-350)
• Pages: 1264-1267
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.347-350.1264
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Bo Qu
• Keywords: ARM, Embedded OS, IPC, Micro-Kernel, Multi-Process, System Calls

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