A framework for self-healing device drivers

Hiroo Ishikawa; Alexandre Courbot; Tatsuo Nakajima

doi:10.1109/SASO.2008.43

A framework for self-healing device drivers

Hiroo Ishikawa^*, Alexandre Courbot, Tatsuo Nakajima

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School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Device drivers are the major cause of operating system failure. Prior research proposed frameworks to improve the reliability of device drivers by means of driver restart. While avoiding any instrumentation of the driver, this approach does not always allow graceful recovery. In this paper, we propose a framework for self-healing device drivers that lets the driver developer consider and implement the failure recovery of device drivers. For this purpose, our framework provides easy to use and light-weight persistent memory that preserves the state of the driver needed to successfully recover. We developped a prototype on top of the L4 microkernel, and were able to achieve full recovery of crashed drivers as fast as 0.2 ms for different device drivers. In all cases, recovery was totally transparent for the user.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008
Pages	277-286
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SASO.2008.43
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008 - Venice, Italy Duration: 2008 Oct 20 → 2008 Oct 24

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Name	Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008

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Conference	2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Venice
Period	08/10/20 → 08/10/24

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Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Control and Systems Engineering

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Ishikawa, H., Courbot, A., & Nakajima, T. (2008). A framework for self-healing device drivers. In Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008 (pp. 277-286). Article 4663431 (Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008). https://doi.org/10.1109/SASO.2008.43

A framework for self-healing device drivers. / Ishikawa, Hiroo; Courbot, Alexandre; Nakajima, Tatsuo.
Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008. 2008. p. 277-286 4663431 (Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008).

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Ishikawa, H, Courbot, A & Nakajima, T 2008, A framework for self-healing device drivers. in Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008., 4663431, Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008, pp. 277-286, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2008, Venice, Italy, 08/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/SASO.2008.43

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