Start reading the OpenSolaris Internals textbook!

In Chapter 1: Skim through:

   1.4 (to understand "lwp" in proc_t member names)
   1.7 (keep in mind that we look at x86, not SPARC!
        for x86 details read the execellent blogposts by Gustavo Duarte:
	http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/memory-translation-and-segmentation
        http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/cpu-rings-privilege-and-protection
        http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in-memory)
	
  Chapter 2:  As you read, keep looking at proc_t definition
              and try commands from 2.13 in "mdb -k" (you must be root to run it!)
	   
   Read carefully:
   2.1 - 2.5 (especially 2.4 and Fig. 2.3)
               
   The figures are the best part of the book,
   spend time understanding them and following
   the links/pointers in code or actual memory           
   (with mdb -k)

   2.8 (again, keep in mind we are on x86)

   You can optionally start reading the following:
   2.10 - 2.10.1 (the /proc filesystem, 
          	  keep looking at the code in 
		  http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/fs/proc/prvnops.c and Fig. 2.10)