Part of requirement for the course E0253: Operating Systems

Summary

• Modified the Memory management subsystem of the Linux kernel and added functionality to it by providing an API using which applications can register for memory ballooning.

• Monitored memory usage and used a custom signal sent to the registered application to free memory in the event of memory pressure.

• Introduced new system calls at the kernel level (Kernel v5.11.5) to achieve the above utilities.

The applied patches and commits can be found here.