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Publisher: The kernel development community.
Online text: docs.kernel.org/filesystems/buffer.html
Cited passages: Buffer Heads: opening note, brelse, mark_buffer_dirty and try_to_free_buffers.
Publisher: MIT PDOS xv6 project.
Publisher: Linux man-pages project.
Online text: man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fsync.2.html
Cited passages: Linux man-pages, fsync(2), DESCRIPTION and RETURN VALUE: file synchronization, separate directory synchronization and error checking.
Publisher: The kernel development community.
Online text: docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/ext4.html
Cited passages: Linux kernel documentation, ext4 General Information, Options data=journal, data=ordered, data=writeback and Data Mode.
Explicit volatile write back cache control by The kernel development community by 
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Codex 0 2026-10-13Publisher: The kernel development community.
Online text: docs.kernel.org/block/writeback_cache_control.html
Cited passages: Linux kernel documentation, Explicit volatile write back cache control, Introduction, Explicit cache flushes and Forced Unit Access.
Publisher: The kernel development community.
Online text: docs.kernel.org/filesystems/ext4/journal.html
Online text: raw.githubusercontent.com/kevin-wayne/algs4/master/src/main/java/edu/princeton/cs/algs4/Insertion.java
Cited passages: Insertion.java: comparator overload of sort, strict less helper, exchange helper, and stability documentation; @author declarations name Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne.
By Ulrich Drepper.
Publisher: LWN.net.
Online text: lwn.net/Articles/252125/
Cited passages: Ulrich Drepper, Memory part 2: CPU caches, section 3.2: read latency can overlap other operations; Ulrich Drepper, Memory part 2: CPU caches, section 3.3.1: fully associative tag comparisons and implementation cost; Ulrich Drepper, Memory part 2: CPU caches, sections 3.2 and 3.3.1: offset, tag and fully associative lookup.
Publisher: Dive into Systems, LLC (online text).
How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs by Leslie Lamport by Codex 0 2026-10-13
Codex 0 2026-10-13By Leslie Lamport.
Publisher: IEEE.
Published in Information Processing Letters.
Online text: www.cs.cornell.edu/fbs/publications/DefLiveness.pdf
Cited passages: Defining Liveness, sections 2–3, printed pp. 181–182: mutual exclusion, finite witnesses to safety violations, and eventual service; Section 2, printed pp. 181–182: finite irremediable prefixes; Section 3, printed p. 182: every finite prefix can still be extended to satisfy a liveness property.
Publisher: ISO/IEC; hosted in the WG21 document archive.
Cited passages: N4861, section 31.4 paragraphs 1–2, printed pp. 1524–1525: relaxed ordering and release/acquire synchronization; N4861, section 6.9.2.1 paragraph 21, printed pp. 79–80: conflicting actions and undefined behavior; N4861, section 6.9.2.1 paragraph 21, section 31.4 paragraphs 1–2, and section 32.5.3.2 paragraphs 11 and 25: data races, atomic ordering, and mutex synchronization; N4861, section 6.9.2.1 paragraphs 9–11 and section 32.5.3.2 paragraphs 11 and 25: ordering and mutex handoff.
By David S. Miller.
Publisher: The Linux Kernel documentation.
Online text: docs.kernel.org/core-api/cachetlb.html
Cited passages: Cache and TLB Flushing Under Linux, opening TLB discussion and flush_tlb_page: stale translations after page-table changes and invalidation during fault processing.
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Online text: man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html
Cited passages: DESCRIPTION, The flags argument, MAP_PRIVATE and MAP_SHARED: update visibility and unspecified visibility of later file changes.
Online text: man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fork.2.html
Cited passages: DESCRIPTION and NOTES: child process, separate memory spaces, shared open file descriptions, copy-on-write implementation; DESCRIPTION: inherited file descriptors share open file descriptions; MADV_DONTFORK and MADV_WIPEONFORK exceptions; NOTES: Linux fork uses copy-on-write pages.
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and others by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05Publisher: Arpaci-Dusseau Books.
By Pat Morin.
Publisher: Athabasca University Press (parent print book).
6.006 Introduction to Algorithms, Fall 2011 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 6.006 course staff by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-20
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-20 Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
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