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  • Protection domain extensions in Mungi
    (1996) Vochteloo, J; Elphinstone, Kevin; Russell, Susan; Heiser, Gernot
    Conference Paper
    The Mungi single address space operating system provides a protected procedure call mechanism named protection domain extension (PDX). The PDX call executes in a protection domain which is the union of (a subset of) the caller`s, and a fixed domain associated with the procedure. On return, the caller`s original protection domain is reestablished. Extensive caching of validation data allows amortisation of setup costs over a possibly large number of invocations. The PDX mechanism forms the basis for object support in Mungi, particularly encapsulation. It is also used for accessing devices, and to implement user-level page fault handlers.