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  2. Kernel page-table isolation - Wikipedia

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    One set of page table for use in kernel mode includes both kernel-space and user-space. The second set of page table for use in user mode contains a copy of user-space and a minimal set of kernel-space handling system calls and interrupts. Kernel page-table isolation ( KPTI or PTI, [1] previously called KAISER) [2] [3] is a Linux kernel feature ...

  3. Dirty COW - Wikipedia

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    Linux kernel (<4.8.3) Dirty COW ( Dirty copy-on-write) is a computer security vulnerability of the Linux kernel that affected all Linux-based operating systems, including Android devices, that used older versions of the Linux kernel created before 2018. It is a local privilege escalation bug that exploits a race condition in the implementation ...

  4. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    After recompiling a kernel binary image from source code, a kernel panic while booting the resulting kernel is a common problem if the kernel was not correctly configured, compiled or installed. Add-on hardware or malfunctioning RAM could also be sources of fatal kernel errors during start up, due to incompatibility with the OS or a missing ...

  5. Kernel (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for preventing and mitigating conflicts between different processes. [1] It is the portion of the operating system code that is always resident in memory [2] and ...

  6. KernelCare - Wikipedia

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    A special KernelCare kernel module applies the patches. It loads the patches into the kernel address space, sets up the relocations (i.e., fixes the references to the original kernel code and data), and safely switches the execution path from the original code to updated code blocks.

  7. ntoskrnl.exe - Wikipedia

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    ntoskrnl.exe. ntoskrnl.exe (short for Windows NT operating system kernel executable ), also known as the kernel image, contains the kernel and executive layers of the Microsoft Windows NT kernel, and is responsible for hardware abstraction, process handling, and memory management. In addition to the kernel and executive layers, it contains the ...

  8. Slab allocation - Wikipedia

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    Slab allocation is a memory management mechanism intended for the efficient memory allocation of objects. In comparison with earlier mechanisms, it reduces fragmentation caused by allocations and deallocations. This technique is used for retaining allocated memory containing a data object of a certain type for reuse upon subsequent allocations ...

  9. Kernel (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    In nonparametric statistics, a kernel is a weighting function used in non-parametric estimation techniques. Kernels are used in kernel density estimation to estimate random variables ' density functions, or in kernel regression to estimate the conditional expectation of a random variable. Kernels are also used in time-series, in the use of the ...