Hardware Works, Software Doesn't:
Enforcing Modularity with Mondriaan Memory Protection

Emmett Witchel and Krste Asanovic
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA 02139

• Abstract

Introduction

Mondriaan Memory Protection

Using MMP in the Kernel

• Memory Supervisor
• Stacks and threads
• Cross-domain calls
  • Passing arguments
• Space overhead of protection domains

Adding MMP to Linux

Comparison with other protection mechanisms

Conclusion

Bibliography

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