OpenVMS V8.2 Internals Differences

Course Description

This 5-day course addresses general OpenVMS V7.3-1 and V7.3-2 changes as well as OpenVMS V8.2 internals changes that apply to both Alpha and HP Integrity platforms.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for support personnel and/or systems programmers who will be upgrading to OpenVMS V8.2 or want to explore internals differences and updates.

Prerequisites 

• Experience of OpenVMS V7.x
• Use of basic SDA commands
• Understand OpenVMS V7.x Alpha internals
• Read code written in C

Benefits of Attending this Class

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should understand:

• V7.3-1 Internals Changes
• 64-Byte Resource Value Blocks
• Infrastructure Changes
• System Service Logging
• Pshared Objects
• V7.3-2 Internals Changes
• V7.3-2 Fast Path Support
• Working Set Lists Move to S2 Space
• Balance Slot Changes
• SCHED Spinlock Changes
• DDT Intercepts
• Large Pool Lookaside Lists
• Alpha EV7 On Chip Logic Analyzer (OCLA)
• V8.2 General Internals Differences
• V7.3 (V7.2-1H1) Pool Reclamation Changes
• Distributed Interrupts
• Delete Process Exit Handler Support
• PCB Spinlocks
• FRED Allocation
• Timer Queue Entry Changes
• Mailbox Specific Spinlocks

Course Contents

V7.3-1 Internals Changes

• Introduction
• V7.3 (V7.2-1H1) Pool Reclamation Change Review
• Distributed Interrupts
• Viewing Fast Path Associations
• Delete Process Exit Handler Support
• PCB Spinlocks
• FRED Allocation
• Timer Queue Entry Changes
• Mailbox Specific Spinlocks

V7.3-2 Internals Changes

• Introduction
• V7.3-2 Fast Path Support
• Working Sets move to S2 Space
• Balance Slot Changes
• SCHED Spinlock Changes
• DDT Intercepts
• Large Pool Lookaside Lists
• SDA On Chip Logic Analyzer (OCLA)

V8.2 General Internals Differences

• Introduction
• Extended Lock Value Block
• Infrastructure Changes
• CPU Name Space
• Fork Block Modification
• System Service Logging
• Pshared Object Support

IA64 Architectural Differences

• Introduction
• General IA64 Architecture
• Itanium Application Registers
• Predication
• Mapping IA64 to/from Alpha Register Conventions
• Register Usage Considerations for Itanium
• OpenVMS Calling Standard on IA64
• Calling Procedures
• Passing Parameters to a Procedure
• NaT Bits
• Register Stack Engine

OpenVMS IA64 System Mechanisms

• Introduction
• Interrupts and Exceptions
• Interrupt Vector Table
• Process Context Switching
• System Service Vectors
• SWIS and System Service Dispatching
• Reading/Writing Privileged Registers
• Atomic Operations for Spinlocks, Queues etc

IA64 Memory Management

• Introduction.
• Virtual Memory
• Multiple Address Space
• OpenVMS and the TLB
• Page Table Entries
• 50-bit Physical Address Issues for OpenVMS

Image Layout and Activation

• Introduction
• Internal Format Changes
• Global Pointer and Short Data
• Commoan Relocations

Console Interface

• Introduction
• HP Integrity Server Console Support
• Installing OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
• Mapping Console Devices to OpenVMS Device Names
• Booting OpenVMS
• Boot Options Command Procedure
• Alpha Console Equivalents

Mode Independent Stack Switching Services

• Introduction
• Kernel Processes
• Kernel Process Blocks
• Using KP Service Routines

SDA Extensions

• Introduction
• SDA Extensions
• IO Tracing
• PC Sampling
• Mutex Tracing
• IA64 Performance Profiling
• TR Print Debugging
• Monitoring Lock Activity with LCK SDA Extensions
• Monitoring the XFC
• Cache Control
• Resetting Cache Counters

If you have any questions about this or any other class, ask us and we'll be happy to help.