Android Binder - Revision history

Jserv: /* Resources */ Add Aleksandar Gargenta's talk at ABS2013

2013-02-24T21:03:15Z

‎Resources: Add Aleksandar Gargenta's talk at ABS2013

2012-03-22T09:07:32Z

Add Jim Huang's presentation about Binder

2012-01-27T01:25:02Z

‎mainlining feedback

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‎obstacles to mainlining

2011-12-12T22:33:45Z

2011-11-10T17:42:27Z

add link to binder thesis

2011-09-22T19:42:35Z

‎obstacles to mainlining

2011-09-22T19:30:15Z

‎Resources

2011-09-22T19:21:11Z

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 * A good overview of binder is in the presentation [http://blog.kmckk.com/archives/3676340.html Inter-process method invocation in Android] by Tetsuyuki Kobayashi
 * [http://www.slideshare.net/jserv/android-ipc-mechanism Android IPC Mechanism] - Another presentation about Android Binder and framework internals, extending Tetsuyuki Kobayashi's materials by Jim Huang of [http://0xlab.org/ 0xlab].
-* [https://www.nds.rub.de/media/attachments/files/2011/10/main.pdf Android Binder] - Thesis by Thorsten Schreiber describing Android Binder in detail.  Has good, detailed information about
+* [https://www.nds.rub.de/media/attachments/files/2011/10/main.pdf Android Binder] - Thesis by Thorsten Schreiber describing Android Binder in detail.  Has good, detailed information about Binder (if you plan to work on Binder, consider this a "must read"!)
-Binder (if you plan to work on Binder, consider this a "must read"!)
+* [http://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/slides/abs2013_gargentas.pdf Deep Dive into Android IPC/Binder Framework] - Aleksandar Gargenta of Marakana presented at Android Builders Summit 2013. Very informative.
 == Answers to questions ==

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 * A good overview of binder is in the presentation [http://blog.kmckk.com/archives/3676340.html Inter-process method invocation in Android] by Tetsuyuki Kobayashi
 * [https://www.nds.rub.de/media/attachments/files/2011/10/main.pdf Android Binder] - Thesis by Thorsten Schreiber describing Android Binder in detail.  Has good, detailed information about
 Binder (if you plan to work on Binder, consider this a "must read"!)

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 selection of Binder was made before D-Bus was mature.  Indeed, years later D-Bus
 was still missing some semantics that binder includes.
 ==== History ====

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-=== obstacles to mainlining ===
+=== mainlining feedback ===
 Daniel Walker wrote ([https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/19/388 in June 2009]):
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 it's fdtable munging and messing around with the user virtual address
 space has exactly zero chance to go properly upstream.
 Marcel Holtman wrote a [https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/25/136 response] to Dianne's message, with information

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 === obstacles to mainlining ===
-The binders interface as implemented currently with
+Daniel Walker wrote ([https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/19/388 in June 2009]):
-it's fdtable munging and messing around with the user virtual address
-space has exactly zero chance to go properly upstream.
-−
 Daniel Walker wrote (in June 2009):
 I think the biggest issue I have with the binder implementation is that
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 haven't figured out yet .. A lot of it can already be done in userspace.
 Marcel Holtman wrote a response to Dianne's message, with information
 about D-Bus capabilities that correlated with what binder does.

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 * That is, one Android process can call a routine in another Android process, using binder to indentify the method to invoke and pass the arguments between processes.
 * note that Android does NOT use SysV IPC for interprocess communication
-* A good overview of binder is in the presentation [http://blog.kmckk.com/archives/3676340.html Inter-process method invocation in Android] by Tetsuyuki Kobayashi
 * the binder implementation is in the kernel source at: <tt>drivers/misc/binder.c</tt>, with include file: <tt>include/linux/binder.h</tt>
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 * http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/IBinder.html - java low-level interface to binder feature
 * http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/aidl.html - Android Interface Definition Language
 == Answers to questions ==

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 == Resources ==
 * http://www.open-binder.org/ - where it came from
+* http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Binder.html - java interface to binder
 == Answers to questions ==

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 hackbod@android.com
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 ==== History ====