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3 | Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel |
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6 | Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> | |
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8 | .. note:: |
9 | The latest version of this document may be found at: | |
10 | :http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html | |
11 | ||
12 | The need for a document like this one became apparent in the | |
13 | linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers | |
14 | to information, appeared again and again. | |
15 | ||
16 | Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more | |
17 | get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always | |
18 | enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the | |
19 | philosophy and design decisions behind this code. | |
20 | ||
21 | Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to | |
22 | start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which | |
23 | kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents | |
24 | available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference | |
25 | books are also mentioned. | |
26 | ||
27 | PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document, | |
28 | send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any | |
29 | corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed. | |
30 | ||
31 | The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are | |
32 | cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the | |
33 | "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful | |
34 | when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the | |
35 | Document. | |
36 | ||
37 | Enjoy! | |
38 | ||
39 | ON-LINE DOCS | |
40 | ------------ | |
41 | ||
42 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition** | |
43 | ||
44 | :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
45 | :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ | |
46 | :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver | |
47 | programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the | |
48 | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. | |
49 | ||
50 | * Title: **The Linux Kernel** | |
51 | ||
52 | :Author: David A. Rusling. | |
53 | :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html | |
54 | :Keywords: everything!, book. | |
55 | :Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of | |
56 | the Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners. | |
57 | Lots of illustrations explaining data structures use and | |
58 | relationships in the purest Richard W. Stevens' style. Contents: | |
59 | "1.-Hardware Basics, 2.-Software Basics, 3.-Memory Management, | |
60 | 4.-Processes, 5.-Interprocess Communication Mechanisms, 6.-PCI, | |
61 | 7.-Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, 8.-Device Drivers, 9.-The | |
62 | File system, 10.-Networks, 11.-Kernel Mechanisms, 12.-Modules, | |
63 | 13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The | |
64 | Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU | |
65 | General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have. | |
66 | ||
67 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition** | |
68 | ||
69 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet. | |
70 | :URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html | |
71 | :Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware, | |
72 | interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA, | |
73 | buses. | |
74 | :Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the | |
75 | GNU Free Documentation License. | |
76 | :Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below | |
77 | under BOOKS (Not on-line). | |
78 | ||
79 | * Title: **Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel** | |
80 | ||
81 | :Author: Ivan T. Bowman. | |
82 | :URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ | |
83 | :Keywords: conceptual software architecture, extracted design, | |
84 | reverse engineering, system structure. | |
85 | :Description: Conceptual software architecture of the Linux kernel, | |
86 | automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good | |
87 | figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. | |
88 | ||
89 | * Title: **Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel** | |
90 | ||
91 | :Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan. | |
92 | :URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ | |
93 | :Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse | |
94 | engineering, system structure, dependencies. | |
95 | :Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel, | |
96 | automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good | |
97 | figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers | |
98 | focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...). | |
99 | ||
100 | * Title: **Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software Architecture** | |
101 | ||
102 | :Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster. | |
103 | :URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ | |
104 | :Keywords: software architecture, architecture recovery, | |
105 | redocumentation. | |
106 | :Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22, | |
107 | 1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same | |
108 | author. | |
109 | ||
110 | * Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System** | |
111 | ||
112 | :Author: Richard Gooch. | |
113 | :URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
114 | :Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files, | |
115 | dentries, dcache. | |
116 | :Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System. | |
117 | What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or | |
118 | mounting a file system and description of important data | |
119 | structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries. | |
120 | ||
121 | * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code** | |
122 | ||
123 | :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. | |
124 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 | |
125 | :Keywords: RAID, MD driver. | |
126 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
127 | :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, | |
128 | RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the | |
129 | Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, | |
130 | secondary-storage capability using software*. | |
131 | ||
132 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers** | |
133 | ||
134 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini. | |
135 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 | |
136 | :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, | |
137 | allocating resources. | |
138 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
139 | :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles | |
140 | co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present | |
141 | a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel | |
142 | loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the | |
143 | topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's | |
144 | installment*. | |
145 | ||
146 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery** | |
147 | ||
148 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini. | |
149 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 | |
150 | :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, | |
151 | autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, | |
152 | open(), close(). | |
153 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
154 | :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of | |
155 | the actual code to create custom module implementing a character | |
156 | device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and | |
157 | cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*. | |
158 | ||
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159 | * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches** |
160 | ||
161 | :Author: Andi Kleen | |
162 | :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf | |
163 | :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies | |
164 | :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches | |
165 | there are and how likley they get merged. | |
166 | :Abstract: | |
167 | [...]. This paper examines some common problems for | |
168 | submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems. | |
169 | ||
170 | * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel** | |
171 | :Author: Richard Sailer | |
172 | :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper | |
173 | :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace | |
174 | :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for | |
175 | understanding linux kernel internals, | |
176 | illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel. | |
177 | :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework | |
178 | as a tool to understand a running Linux system. | |
179 | Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand | |
180 | source code more determined and with context. | |
181 | In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing | |
182 | and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel. | |
183 | Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual | |
184 | exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.* | |
185 | ||
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186 | * Title: **The Devil's in the Details** |
187 | ||
188 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. | |
189 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 | |
190 | :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non | |
191 | blocking mode, interrupt handler. | |
192 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
193 | :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character | |
194 | device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using | |
195 | ioctl-calls*. | |
196 | ||
197 | * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA** | |
198 | ||
199 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. | |
200 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 | |
201 | :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. | |
202 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
203 | :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about | |
204 | writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This | |
205 | month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling. | |
206 | Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and | |
207 | constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver | |
208 | writing, and several different facilities have been provided for | |
209 | different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of | |
210 | DMA*. | |
211 | ||
212 | * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded** | |
213 | ||
214 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. | |
215 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 | |
216 | :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, | |
217 | demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, | |
218 | virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI. | |
219 | :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles | |
220 | series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of | |
221 | five articles about character device drivers. In this final | |
222 | section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with | |
223 | an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts". | |
224 | ||
225 | * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management** | |
226 | ||
227 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
228 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 | |
229 | :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer | |
230 | variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, | |
231 | configuration, multicast. | |
232 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. | |
233 | :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally | |
234 | simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the | |
235 | hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*. | |
236 | ||
237 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide** | |
238 | ||
239 | :Author: Michael K. Johnson. | |
240 | :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html | |
241 | :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs | |
242 | block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, | |
243 | memory allocation, timers. | |
244 | :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the | |
245 | concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal | |
246 | structures of Linux. | |
247 | ||
248 | * Title: **The Venus kernel interface** | |
249 | ||
250 | :Author: Peter J. Braam. | |
251 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html | |
252 | :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager. | |
253 | :Description: "This document describes the communication between | |
254 | Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation | |
255 | of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe | |
256 | the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we | |
257 | envisage". | |
258 | ||
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259 | * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem** |
260 | ||
261 | :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. | |
262 | :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html | |
263 | :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, | |
264 | VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, | |
265 | ext2fs tools, e2fsck. | |
266 | :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers. | |
267 | Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features, | |
268 | design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks, | |
269 | e2fsck's passes description... A must read! | |
270 | :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the | |
271 | First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9. | |
272 | ||
273 | * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure** | |
274 | ||
275 | :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. | |
276 | :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/ | |
277 | :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. | |
278 | :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, | |
279 | bitmaps, invariants... | |
280 | ||
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281 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** |
282 | ||
283 | :Author: Ori Pomerantz. | |
284 | :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html | |
285 | :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, | |
286 | interrupt handlers . | |
287 | :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules | |
288 | programming. Lots of examples. | |
289 | ||
290 | * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux** | |
291 | ||
292 | :Author: Richard Gooch. | |
293 | :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness | |
294 | event queues. | |
295 | :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about | |
296 | how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of | |
297 | open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your | |
298 | application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active | |
299 | (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you | |
300 | want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of | |
301 | inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage". | |
302 | ||
303 | * Title: **The Kernel Hacking HOWTO** | |
304 | ||
305 | :Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. | |
306 | :Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl | |
307 | (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) | |
308 | :Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules, | |
309 | symbols, return conventions. | |
310 | :Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I | |
311 | never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified, | |
312 | but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I | |
313 | simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points | |
314 | into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's | |
315 | what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful | |
316 | routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an | |
317 | understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was | |
318 | originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it | |
319 | applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different". | |
320 | ||
321 | * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver** | |
322 | ||
323 | :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | |
324 | :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html | |
325 | :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. | |
326 | :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, | |
327 | both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel | |
328 | sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. | |
329 | ||
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330 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary** |
331 | ||
332 | :Author: various | |
333 | :URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ | |
334 | :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel. | |
335 | :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as | |
336 | a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear | |
337 | during discussion of the Linux kernel". | |
338 | ||
339 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO** | |
340 | ||
341 | :Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. | |
342 | :Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl | |
343 | (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) | |
344 | :Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race | |
345 | condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs. | |
346 | :Description: The title says it all: document describing the | |
347 | locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP | |
348 | systems. | |
349 | :Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3 | |
350 | kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly | |
351 | different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU | |
352 | General Public License. | |
353 | ||
354 | * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage** | |
355 | ||
356 | :Author: Rick Lindsley. | |
357 | :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock | |
358 | :Keywords: spinlock. | |
359 | :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and | |
360 | usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive | |
361 | list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions | |
362 | access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it | |
363 | is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... | |
364 | ||
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365 | * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh** |
366 | ||
367 | :Author: Paul Mackerras. | |
368 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261 | |
369 | :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility. | |
370 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
371 | ||
372 | * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers** | |
373 | ||
374 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
375 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284 | |
376 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver. | |
377 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
378 | ||
379 | * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales** | |
380 | ||
381 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
382 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307 | |
383 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced. | |
384 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
385 | ||
386 | * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers** | |
387 | ||
388 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
389 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330 | |
390 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. | |
391 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
392 | ||
393 | * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers** | |
394 | ||
395 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
396 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356 | |
397 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O. | |
398 | :Description: The title still says it all. | |
399 | ||
400 | * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver** | |
401 | ||
402 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
403 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381 | |
404 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. | |
405 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
406 | ||
407 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device** | |
408 | ||
409 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
410 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406 | |
411 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, | |
412 | camera driver. | |
413 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
414 | ||
415 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices** | |
416 | ||
417 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
418 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429 | |
419 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, | |
420 | camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. | |
421 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
422 | ||
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423 | * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.** |
424 | ||
425 | :Author: Glenn Herrin. | |
426 | :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin | |
427 | :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection, | |
428 | socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, | |
429 | modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags. | |
430 | :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking, | |
431 | explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space | |
432 | configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of | |
433 | the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps | |
434 | packets follow from the time they are received at the network | |
435 | device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel | |
436 | code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet | |
437 | dropper example. | |
438 | ||
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439 | * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide** |
440 | ||
441 | :Author: David Hinds. | |
442 | :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html | |
443 | :Keywords: PCMCIA. | |
444 | :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device | |
445 | drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also | |
446 | describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with | |
447 | Card Services. | |
448 | ||
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449 | * Title: **A Linux vm README** |
450 | ||
451 | :Author: Kanoj Sarcar. | |
452 | :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html | |
453 | :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page | |
454 | cache, swap cache, kswapd. | |
455 | :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions | |
456 | relating the Linux virtual memory implementation. | |
457 | ||
458 | * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.** | |
459 | ||
460 | :Author: pragmatic/THC. | |
461 | :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html | |
462 | :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table. | |
463 | :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in | |
464 | order to intercept and modify syscalls, make | |
465 | files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys, | |
466 | write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to | |
467 | avoid all those abuses. | |
468 | :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x | |
469 | kernels. | |
470 | ||
471 | BOOKS: (Not on-line) | |
472 | -------------------- | |
473 | ||
474 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers** | |
475 | ||
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476 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini |
477 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates | |
478 | :Date: 1998 | |
479 | :Pages: 439 | |
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480 | :ISBN: 1-56592-292-1 |
481 | ||
482 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition** | |
483 | ||
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484 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet |
485 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates | |
486 | :Date: 2001 | |
487 | :Pages: 586 | |
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488 | :ISBN: 0-59600-008-1 |
489 | :Notes: Further information in | |
490 | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/ | |
491 | ||
492 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition** | |
493 | ||
494 | :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
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495 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates |
496 | :Date: 2005 | |
497 | :Pages: 636 | |
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498 | :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 |
499 | :Notes: Further information in | |
500 | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ | |
501 | PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ | |
502 | ||
503 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals** | |
504 | ||
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505 | :Author: Michael Beck |
506 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | |
507 | :Date: 1997 | |
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508 | :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition) |
509 | ||
510 | * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System** | |
511 | ||
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512 | :Author: Maurice J. Bach |
513 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall | |
514 | :Date: 1986 | |
515 | :Pages: 471 | |
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516 | :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 |
517 | ||
518 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System** | |
519 | ||
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520 | :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J |
521 | Karels, John S. Quarterman | |
522 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | |
523 | :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990) | |
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524 | :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1 |
525 | ||
526 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System** | |
527 | ||
528 | :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, | |
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529 | John S. Quarterman |
530 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | |
531 | :Date: 1996 | |
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532 | :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4 |
533 | ||
534 | * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau** | |
535 | ||
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536 | :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel |
537 | :Publisher: Eyrolles | |
538 | :Date: 1997 | |
539 | :Pages: 520 | |
9e03ea7f | 540 | :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5 |
83d4d3c9 | 541 | :Notes: French |
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542 | |
543 | * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers** | |
544 | ||
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545 | :Author: Uresh Vahalia |
546 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall | |
547 | :Date: 1996 | |
548 | :Pages: 600 | |
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549 | :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 |
550 | ||
551 | * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4** | |
552 | ||
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553 | :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister |
554 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc | |
555 | :Date: 1995 | |
556 | :Pages: ??? | |
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557 | :ISBN: I-56592-074-0 |
558 | :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be | |
559 | POSIX. Good reference. | |
560 | ||
561 | * Title: **UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers** | |
562 | ||
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563 | :Author: Curt Schimmel |
564 | :Publisher: Addison Wesley | |
565 | :Date: June, 1994 | |
566 | :Pages: 432 | |
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567 | :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8 |
568 | ||
569 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition** | |
570 | ||
571 | :Author: Robert Love | |
83d4d3c9 | 572 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley |
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573 | :Date: July, 2010 |
574 | :Pages: 440 | |
575 | :ISBN: 978-0672329463 | |
576 | ||
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577 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory** |
578 | ||
579 | :Author: Rami Rosen | |
580 | :Publisher: Apress | |
581 | :Date: December 22, 2013 | |
582 | :Pages: 648 | |
583 | :ISBN: 978-1430261964 | |
584 | ||
585 | * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln** | |
586 | ||
587 | :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst | |
588 | :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag | |
589 | :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition) | |
590 | :Pages: 688 | |
591 | :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8 | |
592 | :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is | |
593 | much cheaper and still quite up-to-date. | |
594 | ||
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595 | MISCELLANEOUS |
596 | ------------- | |
597 | ||
598 | * Name: **linux/Documentation** | |
599 | ||
600 | :Author: Many. | |
601 | :URL: Just look inside your kernel sources. | |
602 | :Keywords: anything, DocBook. | |
603 | :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources, | |
604 | inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document | |
605 | (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might | |
606 | be more up to date than the web version. | |
607 | ||
608 | * Name: **Linux Kernel Source Reference** | |
609 | ||
610 | :Author: Thomas Graichen. | |
611 | :URL: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=96446640102205&w=4 | |
612 | :Keywords: CVS, web, cvsweb, browsing source code. | |
613 | :Description: Web interface to a CVS server with the kernel | |
614 | sources. "Here you can have a look at any file of the Linux kernel | |
615 | sources of any version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated) | |
616 | current version available. Also you can check the differences | |
617 | between two versions of a file". | |
618 | ||
619 | * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux** | |
620 | ||
621 | :URL: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ | |
622 | :Keywords: Browsing source code. | |
623 | :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser. | |
624 | Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see | |
625 | where they are defined and where they are used. | |
626 | ||
627 | * Name: **Linux Weekly News** | |
628 | ||
629 | :URL: http://lwn.net | |
630 | :Keywords: latest kernel news. | |
631 | :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section | |
632 | summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions | |
633 | produced during the week. Published every Thursday. | |
634 | ||
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635 | * Name: **Linux Virtual File System** |
636 | ||
637 | :Author: Peter J. Braam. | |
638 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ | |
639 | :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache. | |
640 | :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the | |
641 | Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the | |
642 | dcache. | |
643 | ||
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644 | * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** |
645 | ||
646 | :Author: The Linux-MM team. | |
647 | :URL: http://linux-mm.org/ | |
648 | :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, | |
649 | mailing list. | |
650 | :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. | |
651 | Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss | |
652 | it if you are interested in memory management development! | |
653 | ||
654 | * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website** | |
655 | ||
656 | :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org | |
657 | :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts. | |
658 | :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net. | |
659 | #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie' | |
660 | kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are | |
661 | learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or | |
662 | professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel | |
663 | people. | |
664 | #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network. | |
665 | Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies. | |
666 | The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs... | |
667 | ||
668 | * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines** | |
669 | ||
670 | :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html | |
671 | :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html | |
9e03ea7f | 672 | :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel |
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673 | :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search. |
674 | :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If | |
675 | you have a better/another one, please let me know. | |
676 | ||
677 | ------- | |
678 | ||
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