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and the hypervisor of ibm s vm it has since been formalised in liedtke s minimality principle a concept is tolerated inside the microkernel only if moving it outside the kernel i e permitting competing implementations would prevent the implementation of the system s required functionality 20 everything else can be done in a user mode program although device drivers implemented as user programs may on some processor architectures require special privileges to access i o hardware related to the minimality principle and equally important for microkernel design is the separation of mechanism and policy which enables the construction of arbitrary systems on top of a minimal kernel any policy built into the kernel cannot be overwritten at user level and therefore limits the generality of the microkernel 16 policy implemented in user level servers can be changed by replacing the servers or letting the application choose between competing servers offering similar services for efficiency most microkernels contain schedulers and manage timers in violation of the minimality principle and the principle of policy mechanism separation startup booting of a microkernel based system requires device drivers which are not part of the kernel typically this means that they are packaged with the kernel in the boot image and the kernel supports a bootstrap protocol that defines how the drivers are located and started this is the traditional bootstrap procedure of l4 microkernels some microkernels such as lynxos and the original minix simplify this by placing some key drivers inside the kernel in violation of the minimality principle some even include a file system in the kernel to simplify booting a microkernel based system may boot via multiboot compatible boot loader such systems usually load statically linked servers to make an initial bootstrap or mount an os image to continue bootstrapping a key component of a microkernel is a good ipc system and virtual memory manager design that allows implementing page fault handling and swapping in user mode servers in a safe way since all services are performed by user mode programs efficient means of communication between programs are essential far more so than in monolithic kernels the design of the ipc system makes or breaks a microkernel to be effective the ipc system must not only have low overhead but also interact well with cpu scheduling performance edit on most mainstream processors obtaining a service is inherently more expensive in a microkernel based system than a monolithic system 16 in the monolithic system the service is obtained by a single system call which requires two mode switches changes of the processor s ring or cpu mode in the microkernel based system the service is obtained by sending an ipc message to a server and obtaining the result in another ipc message from the server this requires a context switch if the drivers are implemented as processes or a function call if they are implemented as procedures in addition passing actual data to the server and back may incur extra copying overhead while in a monolithic system the kernel can directly access the data in the client s buffers performance is therefore a potential issue in microkernel systems and first generation microkernels such as mach and chorusos indeed performed poorly 19 however jochen liedtke showed that mach s performance problems were the result of poor design and implementation specifically mach s excessive cache footprint 20 liedtke demonstrated with his own l4 microkernel that through careful design and implementation and especially by following the minimality principle ipc costs could be reduced by more than an order of magnitude compared to mach l4 s ipc performance is still unbeaten across a range of architectures 27 28 29 while these results demonstrate that the poor performance of systems based on first generation microkernels is not representative for second generation kernels such as l4 this constitutes no proof that microkernel based systems can be built with good performance it has been shown that a monolithic linux server ported to l4 exhibits only a few percent overhead over native linux 30 however such a single server system exhibits few if any of the advantages microkernels are supposed to provide by structuring operating system functionality into separate servers a number of commercial multi server systems exist in particular the real time systems qnx and integrity no comprehensive comparison of performance relative to monolithic systems has been published for those multiserver systems furthermore performance does not seem to be the overriding concern for those commercial systems which instead emphasize reliably quick interrupt handling response times qnx and simplicity for the sake of robustness an attempt to build a high performance multiserver operating system was the ibm sawmill linux project 31 however this project was never completed it has been shown in the meantime that user level device drivers can come close to the performance of in kernel drivers even for such high throughput high interrupt devices as gigabit ethernet 32 this seems to imply that high performance multi server systems are possible security edit the security benefits of microkernels have been frequently discussed 33 34 in the context of security the minimality principle of microkernels is some have argued a direct consequence of the principle of least privilege according to which all code should have only the privileges needed to provide required functionality minimality requires that a system s trusted computing base tcb should be kept minimal as the kernel the code that executes in the privileged mode of the hardware has unvetted access to any data and can thus violate its integrity or confidentiality the kernel is always part of the tcb minimizing it is natural in a security driven design consequently microkernel designs have been used for systems designed for high security applications including keykos eros and military systems in fact common criteria cc at the highest assurance level evaluation assurance level eal 7 has an explicit requirement that the target of evaluation be simple an acknowledgment of the practical impossibility of establishing true trustworthiness for a complex system again the term simple is misleading and ill defined at least the department of defense trusted computer system evaluation criteria introduced somewhat more precise verbiage at the b3 a1 classes the tcb shall implement complete conceptually simple protection mechanisms with precisely defined semantics significant system engineering shall be directed toward minimizing the complexity of the tcb as well as excluding from the tcb those modules that are not protection critical department of defense trusted computer system evaluation criteria in 2018 a paper presented at the asia pacific systems conference claimed that microkernels were demonstrably safer than monolithic kernels by investigating all published critical cves for the linux kernel at the time the study concluded that 40 of the issues could not occur at all in a formally verified microkernel and only 4 of the issues would remain entirely unmitigated in such a system 35 third generation edit more recent work on microkernels has been focusing on formal specifications of the kernel api and formal proofs of the api s security properties and implementation correctness the first example of this is a mathematical proof of the confinement mechanisms in eros based on a simplified model of the eros api 36 more recently in 2007 a comprehensive set of machine checked proofs was performed of the properties of the protection model of sel4 a version of l4 37 this has led to what is referred to as third generation microkernels 38 characterised by a security oriented api with resource access controlled by capabilities virtualization as a first class concern novel approaches to kernel resource management 39 and a design goal of suitability for formal analysis besides the usual goal of high performance examples are coyotos sel4 nova 40 41 redox and fiasco oc 40 42 in the case of sel4 complete formal verification of the implementation has been achieved 38 i e a mathematical proof that the kernel s implementation is consistent with its formal specification this provides a guarantee that the properties proved about the api actually hold for the real kernel a degree of assurance which goes beyond even cc eal7 it was followed by proofs of security enforcement properties of the api and a proof demonstrating that the executable binary code is a correct translation of the c implementation taking the compiler out of the tcb taken together these proofs establish an end to end proof of security properties of the kernel 43 examples edit some examples of microkernels are amigaos amoeba os blackberry qnx genode harmonyos harmonyos 5 liteos discontinued helenos horizon nintendo 3ds and nintendo switch system software the l4 microkernel family mach mac os 7 to mac os 9 mac os nanokernel minix abandoned midori discontinued phantom os qubes os redox symbian discontinued symbos threadx zircon nanokernel edit look up nanokernal in wiktionary the free dictionary the term nanokernel or picokernel historically referred to a kernel where the total amount of kernel code i e code executing in the privileged mode of the hardware is very small the term picokernel was sometimes used to further emphasize small size the term nanokernel was coined by jonathan s shapiro in the paper the keykos nanokernel architecture it was a sardonic response to mach which claimed to be a microkernel while shapiro considered it monolithic essentially unstructured and slower than the systems it sought to replace subsequent reuse of and response to the term including the picokernel coinage suggest that the point was largely missed both nanokernel and picokernel have subsequently come to mean the same 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