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Transactional NP-Heap
Overview
In the previous project, we have built NPHeap, an in-memory kernel module that provides efficient data sharing among different processes. Although NPHeap provides some degree of parallel programming support -- through simple, traditional locking/unlocking mechanism in either a fine-grained or coarse-grained manner, depending on how you implemented it, the performance of such a lock-based mechanism can be limited once the degree of parallelism increases. 

Objective of the project:

* Learning more about parallel processes
* Learning the concept of transactional memory
* Learning how user-space library works together with kernel modules
* Learning how to implement a handler
* Learning how memory protection works