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1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
2 | <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" | |
3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> | |
4 | ||
5 | <book id="LinuxKernelAPI"> | |
6 | <bookinfo> | |
7 | <title>The Linux Kernel API</title> | |
8 | ||
9 | <legalnotice> | |
10 | <para> | |
11 | This documentation is free software; you can redistribute | |
12 | it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public | |
13 | License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either | |
14 | version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later | |
15 | version. | |
16 | </para> | |
17 | ||
18 | <para> | |
19 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be | |
20 | useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied | |
21 | warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
22 | See the GNU General Public License for more details. | |
23 | </para> | |
24 | ||
25 | <para> | |
26 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public | |
27 | License along with this program; if not, write to the Free | |
28 | Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, | |
29 | MA 02111-1307 USA | |
30 | </para> | |
31 | ||
32 | <para> | |
33 | For more details see the file COPYING in the source | |
34 | distribution of Linux. | |
35 | </para> | |
36 | </legalnotice> | |
37 | </bookinfo> | |
38 | ||
39 | <toc></toc> | |
40 | ||
41 | <chapter id="Basics"> | |
42 | <title>Driver Basics</title> | |
43 | <sect1><title>Driver Entry and Exit points</title> | |
44 | !Iinclude/linux/init.h | |
45 | </sect1> | |
46 | ||
47 | <sect1><title>Atomic and pointer manipulation</title> | |
48 | !Iinclude/asm-i386/atomic.h | |
49 | !Iinclude/asm-i386/unaligned.h | |
50 | </sect1> | |
51 | ||
1da177e4 | 52 | <sect1><title>Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines</title> |
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53 | !Iinclude/linux/sched.h |
54 | !Ekernel/sched.c | |
55 | !Ekernel/timer.c | |
1da177e4 | 56 | </sect1> |
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57 | <sect1><title>Internal Functions</title> |
58 | !Ikernel/exit.c | |
59 | !Ikernel/signal.c | |
60 | </sect1> | |
61 | ||
62 | <sect1><title>Kernel objects manipulation</title> | |
63 | <!-- | |
64 | X!Iinclude/linux/kobject.h | |
65 | --> | |
66 | !Elib/kobject.c | |
67 | </sect1> | |
68 | ||
69 | <sect1><title>Kernel utility functions</title> | |
70 | !Iinclude/linux/kernel.h | |
71 | <!-- This needs to clean up to make kernel-doc happy | |
72 | X!Ekernel/printk.c | |
73 | --> | |
74 | !Ekernel/panic.c | |
75 | !Ekernel/sys.c | |
76 | !Ekernel/rcupdate.c | |
77 | </sect1> | |
78 | ||
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79 | </chapter> |
80 | ||
81 | <chapter id="adt"> | |
82 | <title>Data Types</title> | |
83 | <sect1><title>Doubly Linked Lists</title> | |
84 | !Iinclude/linux/list.h | |
85 | </sect1> | |
86 | </chapter> | |
87 | ||
88 | <chapter id="libc"> | |
89 | <title>Basic C Library Functions</title> | |
90 | ||
91 | <para> | |
92 | When writing drivers, you cannot in general use routines which are | |
93 | from the C Library. Some of the functions have been found generally | |
94 | useful and they are listed below. The behaviour of these functions | |
95 | may vary slightly from those defined by ANSI, and these deviations | |
96 | are noted in the text. | |
97 | </para> | |
98 | ||
99 | <sect1><title>String Conversions</title> | |
100 | !Ilib/vsprintf.c | |
101 | !Elib/vsprintf.c | |
102 | </sect1> | |
103 | <sect1><title>String Manipulation</title> | |
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104 | <!-- All functions are exported at now |
105 | X!Ilib/string.c | |
106 | --> | |
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107 | !Elib/string.c |
108 | </sect1> | |
109 | <sect1><title>Bit Operations</title> | |
110 | !Iinclude/asm-i386/bitops.h | |
111 | </sect1> | |
112 | </chapter> | |
113 | ||
114 | <chapter id="mm"> | |
115 | <title>Memory Management in Linux</title> | |
116 | <sect1><title>The Slab Cache</title> | |
117 | !Emm/slab.c | |
118 | </sect1> | |
119 | <sect1><title>User Space Memory Access</title> | |
120 | !Iinclude/asm-i386/uaccess.h | |
121 | !Iarch/i386/lib/usercopy.c | |
122 | </sect1> | |
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123 | <sect1><title>More Memory Management Functions</title> |
124 | !Iinclude/linux/rmap.h | |
125 | !Emm/readahead.c | |
126 | !Emm/filemap.c | |
127 | !Emm/memory.c | |
128 | !Emm/vmalloc.c | |
129 | !Emm/mempool.c | |
130 | !Emm/page-writeback.c | |
131 | !Emm/truncate.c | |
132 | </sect1> | |
133 | </chapter> | |
134 | ||
135 | ||
136 | <chapter id="ipc"> | |
137 | <title>Kernel IPC facilities</title> | |
138 | ||
139 | <sect1><title>IPC utilities</title> | |
140 | !Iipc/util.c | |
141 | </sect1> | |
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142 | </chapter> |
143 | ||
144 | <chapter id="kfifo"> | |
145 | <title>FIFO Buffer</title> | |
146 | <sect1><title>kfifo interface</title> | |
147 | !Iinclude/linux/kfifo.h | |
148 | !Ekernel/kfifo.c | |
149 | </sect1> | |
150 | </chapter> | |
151 | ||
152 | <chapter id="proc"> | |
153 | <title>The proc filesystem</title> | |
154 | ||
155 | <sect1><title>sysctl interface</title> | |
156 | !Ekernel/sysctl.c | |
157 | </sect1> | |
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158 | |
159 | <sect1><title>proc filesystem interface</title> | |
160 | !Ifs/proc/base.c | |
161 | </sect1> | |
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162 | </chapter> |
163 | ||
164 | <chapter id="debugfs"> | |
165 | <title>The debugfs filesystem</title> | |
166 | ||
167 | <sect1><title>debugfs interface</title> | |
168 | !Efs/debugfs/inode.c | |
169 | !Efs/debugfs/file.c | |
170 | </sect1> | |
171 | </chapter> | |
172 | ||
173 | <chapter id="vfs"> | |
174 | <title>The Linux VFS</title> | |
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175 | <sect1><title>The Filesystem types</title> |
176 | !Iinclude/linux/fs.h | |
177 | !Einclude/linux/fs.h | |
178 | </sect1> | |
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179 | <sect1><title>The Directory Cache</title> |
180 | !Efs/dcache.c | |
181 | !Iinclude/linux/dcache.h | |
182 | </sect1> | |
183 | <sect1><title>Inode Handling</title> | |
184 | !Efs/inode.c | |
185 | !Efs/bad_inode.c | |
186 | </sect1> | |
187 | <sect1><title>Registration and Superblocks</title> | |
188 | !Efs/super.c | |
189 | </sect1> | |
190 | <sect1><title>File Locks</title> | |
191 | !Efs/locks.c | |
192 | !Ifs/locks.c | |
193 | </sect1> | |
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194 | <sect1><title>Other Functions</title> |
195 | !Efs/mpage.c | |
196 | !Efs/namei.c | |
197 | !Efs/buffer.c | |
198 | !Efs/bio.c | |
199 | !Efs/seq_file.c | |
200 | !Efs/filesystems.c | |
201 | !Efs/fs-writeback.c | |
202 | !Efs/block_dev.c | |
203 | </sect1> | |
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204 | </chapter> |
205 | ||
206 | <chapter id="netcore"> | |
207 | <title>Linux Networking</title> | |
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208 | <sect1><title>Networking Base Types</title> |
209 | !Iinclude/linux/net.h | |
210 | </sect1> | |
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211 | <sect1><title>Socket Buffer Functions</title> |
212 | !Iinclude/linux/skbuff.h | |
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213 | !Iinclude/net/sock.h |
214 | !Enet/socket.c | |
1da177e4 | 215 | !Enet/core/skbuff.c |
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216 | !Enet/core/sock.c |
217 | !Enet/core/datagram.c | |
218 | !Enet/core/stream.c | |
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219 | </sect1> |
220 | <sect1><title>Socket Filter</title> | |
221 | !Enet/core/filter.c | |
222 | </sect1> | |
223 | <sect1><title>Generic Network Statistics</title> | |
224 | !Iinclude/linux/gen_stats.h | |
225 | !Enet/core/gen_stats.c | |
226 | !Enet/core/gen_estimator.c | |
227 | </sect1> | |
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228 | <sect1><title>SUN RPC subsystem</title> |
229 | <!-- The !D functionality is not perfect, garbage has to be protected by comments | |
230 | !Dnet/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c | |
231 | --> | |
232 | !Enet/sunrpc/xdr.c | |
233 | !Enet/sunrpc/svcsock.c | |
234 | !Enet/sunrpc/sched.c | |
235 | </sect1> | |
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236 | </chapter> |
237 | ||
238 | <chapter id="netdev"> | |
239 | <title>Network device support</title> | |
240 | <sect1><title>Driver Support</title> | |
241 | !Enet/core/dev.c | |
242 | </sect1> | |
243 | <sect1><title>8390 Based Network Cards</title> | |
244 | !Edrivers/net/8390.c | |
245 | </sect1> | |
246 | <sect1><title>Synchronous PPP</title> | |
247 | !Edrivers/net/wan/syncppp.c | |
248 | </sect1> | |
249 | </chapter> | |
250 | ||
251 | <chapter id="modload"> | |
252 | <title>Module Support</title> | |
253 | <sect1><title>Module Loading</title> | |
254 | !Ekernel/kmod.c | |
255 | </sect1> | |
256 | <sect1><title>Inter Module support</title> | |
257 | <para> | |
258 | Refer to the file kernel/module.c for more information. | |
259 | </para> | |
260 | <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source | |
261 | X!Ekernel/module.c | |
262 | --> | |
263 | </sect1> | |
264 | </chapter> | |
265 | ||
266 | <chapter id="hardware"> | |
267 | <title>Hardware Interfaces</title> | |
268 | <sect1><title>Interrupt Handling</title> | |
3d41088f | 269 | !Ikernel/irq/manage.c |
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270 | </sect1> |
271 | ||
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272 | <sect1><title>Resources Management</title> |
273 | !Ekernel/resource.c | |
274 | </sect1> | |
275 | ||
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276 | <sect1><title>MTRR Handling</title> |
277 | !Earch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | |
278 | </sect1> | |
279 | <sect1><title>PCI Support Library</title> | |
280 | !Edrivers/pci/pci.c | |
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281 | !Edrivers/pci/pci-driver.c |
282 | !Edrivers/pci/remove.c | |
283 | !Edrivers/pci/pci-acpi.c | |
284 | <!-- kerneldoc does not understand to __devinit | |
285 | X!Edrivers/pci/search.c | |
286 | --> | |
287 | !Edrivers/pci/msi.c | |
288 | !Edrivers/pci/bus.c | |
289 | !Edrivers/pci/hotplug.c | |
290 | !Edrivers/pci/probe.c | |
291 | !Edrivers/pci/rom.c | |
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292 | </sect1> |
293 | <sect1><title>PCI Hotplug Support Library</title> | |
294 | !Edrivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c | |
295 | </sect1> | |
296 | <sect1><title>MCA Architecture</title> | |
297 | <sect2><title>MCA Device Functions</title> | |
298 | <para> | |
299 | Refer to the file arch/i386/kernel/mca.c for more information. | |
300 | </para> | |
301 | <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source | |
302 | X!Earch/i386/kernel/mca.c | |
303 | --> | |
304 | </sect2> | |
305 | <sect2><title>MCA Bus DMA</title> | |
306 | !Iinclude/asm-i386/mca_dma.h | |
307 | </sect2> | |
308 | </sect1> | |
309 | </chapter> | |
310 | ||
311 | <chapter id="devfs"> | |
312 | <title>The Device File System</title> | |
313 | !Efs/devfs/base.c | |
314 | </chapter> | |
315 | ||
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316 | <chapter id="sysfs"> |
317 | <title>The Filesystem for Exporting Kernel Objects</title> | |
318 | !Efs/sysfs/file.c | |
319 | !Efs/sysfs/dir.c | |
320 | !Efs/sysfs/symlink.c | |
321 | !Efs/sysfs/bin.c | |
322 | </chapter> | |
323 | ||
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324 | <chapter id="security"> |
325 | <title>Security Framework</title> | |
326 | !Esecurity/security.c | |
327 | </chapter> | |
328 | ||
329 | <chapter id="pmfuncs"> | |
330 | <title>Power Management</title> | |
331 | !Ekernel/power/pm.c | |
332 | </chapter> | |
333 | ||
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334 | <chapter id="devdrivers"> |
335 | <title>Device drivers infrastructure</title> | |
336 | <sect1><title>Device Drivers Base</title> | |
337 | <!-- | |
338 | X!Iinclude/linux/device.h | |
339 | --> | |
340 | !Edrivers/base/driver.c | |
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341 | !Edrivers/base/core.c |
342 | !Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c | |
343 | !Edrivers/base/transport_class.c | |
344 | !Edrivers/base/dmapool.c | |
345 | <!-- Cannot be included, because | |
346 | attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter | |
347 | and attribute_container_classdev_to_container | |
348 | exceed allowed 44 characters maximum | |
349 | X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c | |
350 | --> | |
351 | !Edrivers/base/sys.c | |
352 | <!-- | |
353 | X!Edrivers/base/interface.c | |
354 | --> | |
355 | !Edrivers/base/platform.c | |
356 | !Edrivers/base/bus.c | |
357 | </sect1> | |
358 | <sect1><title>Device Drivers Power Management</title> | |
359 | !Edrivers/base/power/main.c | |
360 | !Edrivers/base/power/resume.c | |
361 | !Edrivers/base/power/suspend.c | |
362 | </sect1> | |
363 | <sect1><title>Device Drivers ACPI Support</title> | |
364 | <!-- Internal functions only | |
365 | X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/main.c | |
366 | X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/wakeup.c | |
367 | X!Edrivers/acpi/motherboard.c | |
368 | X!Edrivers/acpi/bus.c | |
369 | --> | |
370 | !Edrivers/acpi/scan.c | |
371 | <!-- No correct structured comments | |
372 | X!Edrivers/acpi/pci_bind.c | |
373 | --> | |
374 | </sect1> | |
375 | <sect1><title>Device drivers PnP support</title> | |
376 | !Edrivers/pnp/core.c | |
377 | <!-- No correct structured comments | |
378 | X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c | |
379 | --> | |
380 | !Edrivers/pnp/card.c | |
381 | !Edrivers/pnp/driver.c | |
382 | !Edrivers/pnp/manager.c | |
383 | !Edrivers/pnp/support.c | |
384 | </sect1> | |
385 | </chapter> | |
386 | ||
387 | ||
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388 | <chapter id="blkdev"> |
389 | <title>Block Devices</title> | |
390 | !Edrivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c | |
391 | </chapter> | |
392 | ||
393 | <chapter id="miscdev"> | |
394 | <title>Miscellaneous Devices</title> | |
395 | !Edrivers/char/misc.c | |
396 | </chapter> | |
397 | ||
398 | <chapter id="viddev"> | |
399 | <title>Video4Linux</title> | |
400 | !Edrivers/media/video/videodev.c | |
401 | </chapter> | |
402 | ||
403 | <chapter id="snddev"> | |
404 | <title>Sound Devices</title> | |
4dc3b16b | 405 | !Iinclude/sound/core.h |
1da177e4 | 406 | !Esound/sound_core.c |
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407 | !Iinclude/sound/pcm.h |
408 | !Esound/core/pcm.c | |
409 | !Esound/core/device.c | |
410 | !Esound/core/info.c | |
411 | !Esound/core/rawmidi.c | |
412 | !Esound/core/sound.c | |
413 | !Esound/core/memory.c | |
414 | !Esound/core/pcm_memory.c | |
415 | !Esound/core/init.c | |
416 | !Esound/core/isadma.c | |
417 | !Esound/core/control.c | |
418 | !Esound/core/pcm_lib.c | |
419 | !Esound/core/hwdep.c | |
420 | !Esound/core/pcm_native.c | |
421 | !Esound/core/memalloc.c | |
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422 | <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source |
423 | X!Isound/sound_firmware.c | |
424 | --> | |
425 | </chapter> | |
426 | ||
427 | <chapter id="uart16x50"> | |
428 | <title>16x50 UART Driver</title> | |
4dc3b16b | 429 | !Iinclude/linux/serial_core.h |
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430 | !Edrivers/serial/serial_core.c |
431 | !Edrivers/serial/8250.c | |
432 | </chapter> | |
433 | ||
434 | <chapter id="z85230"> | |
435 | <title>Z85230 Support Library</title> | |
436 | !Edrivers/net/wan/z85230.c | |
437 | </chapter> | |
438 | ||
439 | <chapter id="fbdev"> | |
440 | <title>Frame Buffer Library</title> | |
441 | ||
442 | <para> | |
443 | The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures. | |
444 | These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are | |
445 | fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs. | |
446 | The last three can be made available to and from userland. | |
447 | </para> | |
448 | ||
449 | <para> | |
450 | fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card. | |
451 | Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a | |
452 | collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work. | |
453 | fb_info is only visible to the kernel. | |
454 | </para> | |
455 | ||
456 | <para> | |
457 | fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card | |
458 | that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as | |
459 | depth and the resolution may be defined. | |
460 | </para> | |
461 | ||
462 | <para> | |
463 | The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the | |
464 | properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't | |
465 | be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the | |
466 | frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer | |
467 | memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved. | |
468 | </para> | |
469 | ||
470 | <para> | |
471 | The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was | |
472 | little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things | |
473 | such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With | |
474 | the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used | |
475 | correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs | |
476 | will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x. | |
477 | </para> | |
478 | ||
479 | <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Memory</title> | |
480 | !Edrivers/video/fbmem.c | |
481 | </sect1> | |
4dc3b16b | 482 | <!-- |
1da177e4 | 483 | <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Console</title> |
4dc3b16b | 484 | X!Edrivers/video/console/fbcon.c |
1da177e4 | 485 | </sect1> |
4dc3b16b | 486 | --> |
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487 | <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Colormap</title> |
488 | !Edrivers/video/fbcmap.c | |
489 | </sect1> | |
490 | <!-- FIXME: | |
491 | drivers/video/fbgen.c has no docs, which stuffs up the sgml. Comment | |
492 | out until somebody adds docs. KAO | |
493 | <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Generic Functions</title> | |
494 | X!Idrivers/video/fbgen.c | |
495 | </sect1> | |
496 | KAO --> | |
497 | <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Video Mode Database</title> | |
498 | !Idrivers/video/modedb.c | |
499 | !Edrivers/video/modedb.c | |
500 | </sect1> | |
501 | <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database</title> | |
502 | !Idrivers/video/macmodes.c | |
503 | </sect1> | |
504 | <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title> | |
505 | <para> | |
506 | Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information. | |
507 | </para> | |
508 | <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source | |
509 | X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c | |
510 | --> | |
511 | </sect1> | |
512 | </chapter> | |
513 | </book> |