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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 | The need for a document like this one became apparent in the |
9 | linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers | |
10 | to information, appeared again and again. | |
11 | ||
12 | Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more | |
13 | get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always | |
14 | enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the | |
15 | philosophy and design decisions behind this code. | |
16 | ||
17 | Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to | |
18 | start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which | |
19 | kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents | |
20 | available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference | |
21 | books are also mentioned. | |
22 | ||
23 | PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document, | |
24 | send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any | |
25 | corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed. | |
26 | ||
27 | The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are | |
28 | cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the | |
29 | "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful | |
30 | when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the | |
31 | Document. | |
32 | ||
33 | Enjoy! | |
34 | ||
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35 | .. note:: |
36 | ||
37 | The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its | |
38 | published date, from the newest to the oldest. | |
39 | ||
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40 | Docs at the Linux Kernel tree |
41 | ----------------------------- | |
42 | ||
43 | The DocBook books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}``. | |
44 | The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``. | |
45 | ||
46 | * Name: **linux/Documentation** | |
47 | ||
48 | :Author: Many. | |
49 | :Location: Documentation/ | |
50 | :Keywords: text files, Sphinx, DocBook. | |
51 | :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources, | |
52 | inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document | |
53 | (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might | |
54 | be more up to date than the web version. | |
55 | ||
56 | * Title: **The Kernel Hacking HOWTO** | |
57 | ||
58 | :Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. | |
59 | :Location: Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl | |
60 | :Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules, | |
61 | symbols, return conventions. | |
62 | :Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I | |
63 | never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified, | |
64 | but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I | |
65 | simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points | |
66 | into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's | |
67 | what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful | |
68 | routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an | |
69 | understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was | |
70 | originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it | |
71 | applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different". | |
72 | ||
73 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO** | |
74 | ||
75 | :Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. | |
76 | :Location: Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl | |
77 | :Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race | |
78 | condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs. | |
79 | :Description: The title says it all: document describing the | |
80 | locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP | |
81 | systems. | |
82 | :Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3 | |
83 | kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly | |
84 | different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU | |
85 | General Public License. | |
86 | ||
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88 | ------------ |
89 | ||
cc68fd95 | 90 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary** |
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92 | :Author: various |
93 | :URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ | |
94 | :Date: rolling version | |
95 | :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel. | |
96 | :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as | |
97 | a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear | |
98 | during discussion of the Linux kernel". | |
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100 | * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel** | |
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102 | :Author: Richard Sailer |
103 | :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper | |
57b2e1c8 | 104 | :Date: 2016 |
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105 | :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace |
106 | :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for | |
107 | understanding linux kernel internals, | |
108 | illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel. | |
109 | :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework | |
110 | as a tool to understand a running Linux system. | |
111 | Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand | |
112 | source code more determined and with context. | |
113 | In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing | |
114 | and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel. | |
115 | Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual | |
116 | exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.* | |
117 | ||
cc68fd95 | 118 | * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches** |
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120 | :Author: Andi Kleen |
121 | :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf | |
122 | :Date: 2008 | |
123 | :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies | |
124 | :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches | |
125 | there are and how likley they get merged. | |
126 | :Abstract: | |
127 | [...]. This paper examines some common problems for | |
128 | submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems. | |
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cc68fd95 | 130 | * Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System** |
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132 | :Author: Richard Gooch. |
133 | :URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
134 | :Date: 2007 | |
135 | :Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files, | |
136 | dentries, dcache. | |
137 | :Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System. | |
138 | What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or | |
139 | mounting a file system and description of important data | |
140 | structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries. | |
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cc68fd95 | 142 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition** |
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144 | :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman |
145 | :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ | |
146 | :Date: 2005 | |
147 | :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver | |
148 | programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the | |
149 | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. | |
150 | :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`. | |
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cc68fd95 | 152 | * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver** |
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154 | :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> |
155 | :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html | |
156 | :Date: 2005 | |
157 | :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. | |
158 | :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, | |
159 | both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel | |
160 | sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. | |
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cc68fd95 | 162 | * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide** |
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164 | :Author: David Hinds. |
165 | :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html | |
166 | :Date: 2003 | |
167 | :Keywords: PCMCIA. | |
168 | :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device | |
169 | drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also | |
170 | describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with | |
171 | Card Services. | |
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172 | |
173 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** | |
174 | ||
175 | :Author: Ori Pomerantz. | |
176 | :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html | |
57b2e1c8 | 177 | :Date: 2001 |
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178 | :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, |
179 | interrupt handlers . | |
180 | :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules | |
181 | programming. Lots of examples. | |
182 | ||
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183 | * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage** |
184 | ||
185 | :Author: Rick Lindsley. | |
186 | :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock | |
57b2e1c8 | 187 | :Date: 2001 |
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188 | :Keywords: spinlock. |
189 | :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and | |
190 | usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive | |
191 | list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions | |
192 | access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it | |
193 | is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... | |
194 | ||
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195 | * Title: **A Linux vm README** |
196 | ||
197 | :Author: Kanoj Sarcar. | |
198 | :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html | |
199 | :Date: 2001 | |
200 | :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page | |
201 | cache, swap cache, kswapd. | |
202 | :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions | |
203 | relating the Linux virtual memory implementation. | |
204 | ||
205 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device** | |
206 | ||
207 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
208 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406 | |
209 | :Date: 2000 | |
210 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, | |
211 | camera driver. | |
212 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
213 | ||
214 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices** | |
215 | ||
216 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
217 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429 | |
218 | :Date: 2000 | |
219 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, | |
220 | camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. | |
221 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
222 | ||
223 | * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.** | |
224 | ||
225 | :Author: Glenn Herrin. | |
226 | :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin | |
227 | :Date: 2000 | |
228 | :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection, | |
229 | socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, | |
230 | modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags. | |
231 | :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking, | |
232 | explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space | |
233 | configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of | |
234 | the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps | |
235 | packets follow from the time they are received at the network | |
236 | device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel | |
237 | code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet | |
238 | dropper example. | |
239 | ||
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240 | * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh** |
241 | ||
242 | :Author: Paul Mackerras. | |
243 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261 | |
57b2e1c8 | 244 | :Date: 1999 |
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245 | :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility. |
246 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
247 | ||
248 | * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers** | |
249 | ||
250 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
251 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284 | |
57b2e1c8 | 252 | :Date: 1999 |
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253 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver. |
254 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
255 | ||
256 | * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales** | |
257 | ||
258 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
259 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307 | |
57b2e1c8 | 260 | :Date: 1999 |
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261 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced. |
262 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
263 | ||
264 | * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers** | |
265 | ||
266 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
267 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330 | |
57b2e1c8 | 268 | :Date: 1999 |
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269 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. |
270 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
271 | ||
272 | * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers** | |
273 | ||
274 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
275 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356 | |
57b2e1c8 | 276 | :Date: 1999 |
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277 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O. |
278 | :Description: The title still says it all. | |
279 | ||
280 | * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver** | |
281 | ||
282 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
283 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381 | |
57b2e1c8 | 284 | :Date: 1999 |
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285 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. |
286 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
287 | ||
cc68fd95 | 288 | * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux** |
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290 | :Author: Richard Gooch. |
291 | :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html | |
292 | :Date: 1999 | |
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". | |
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302 | |
303 | * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.** | |
304 | ||
305 | :Author: pragmatic/THC. | |
306 | :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html | |
57b2e1c8 | 307 | :Date: 1999 |
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308 | :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table. |
309 | :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in | |
310 | order to intercept and modify syscalls, make | |
311 | files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys, | |
312 | write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to | |
313 | avoid all those abuses. | |
314 | :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x | |
315 | kernels. | |
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317 | * Name: **Linux Virtual File System** |
318 | ||
319 | :Author: Peter J. Braam. | |
320 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ | |
321 | :Date: 1998 | |
322 | :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache. | |
323 | :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the | |
324 | Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the | |
325 | dcache. | |
326 | ||
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327 | * Title: **The Venus kernel interface** |
328 | ||
329 | :Author: Peter J. Braam. | |
330 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html | |
331 | :Date: 1998 | |
332 | :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager. | |
333 | :Description: "This document describes the communication between | |
334 | Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation | |
335 | of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe | |
336 | the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we | |
337 | envisage". | |
338 | ||
339 | * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem** | |
340 | ||
341 | :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. | |
342 | :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html | |
343 | :Date: 1998 | |
344 | :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, | |
345 | VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, | |
346 | ext2fs tools, e2fsck. | |
347 | :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers. | |
348 | Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features, | |
349 | design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks, | |
350 | e2fsck's passes description... A must read! | |
351 | :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the | |
352 | First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9. | |
353 | ||
354 | * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code** | |
355 | ||
356 | :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. | |
357 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 | |
358 | :Date: 1997 | |
359 | :Keywords: RAID, MD driver. | |
360 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
361 | :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, | |
362 | RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the | |
363 | Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, | |
364 | secondary-storage capability using software*. | |
365 | ||
366 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide** | |
367 | ||
368 | :Author: Michael K. Johnson. | |
369 | :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html | |
370 | :Date: 1997 | |
371 | :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs | |
372 | block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, | |
373 | memory allocation, timers. | |
374 | :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the | |
375 | concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal | |
376 | structures of Linux. | |
377 | ||
378 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers** | |
379 | ||
380 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini. | |
381 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 | |
382 | :Date: 1996 | |
383 | :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, | |
384 | allocating resources. | |
385 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
386 | :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles | |
387 | co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present | |
388 | a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel | |
389 | loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the | |
390 | topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's | |
391 | installment*. | |
392 | ||
393 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery** | |
394 | ||
395 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini. | |
396 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 | |
397 | :Date: 1996 | |
398 | :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, | |
399 | autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, | |
400 | open(), close(). | |
401 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
402 | :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of | |
403 | the actual code to create custom module implementing a character | |
404 | device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and | |
405 | cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*. | |
406 | ||
407 | * Title: **The Devil's in the Details** | |
408 | ||
409 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. | |
410 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 | |
411 | :Date: 1996 | |
412 | :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non | |
413 | blocking mode, interrupt handler. | |
414 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
415 | :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character | |
416 | device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using | |
417 | ioctl-calls*. | |
418 | ||
419 | * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA** | |
420 | ||
421 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. | |
422 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 | |
423 | :Date: 1996 | |
424 | :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. | |
425 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
426 | :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about | |
427 | writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This | |
428 | month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling. | |
429 | Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and | |
430 | constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver | |
431 | writing, and several different facilities have been provided for | |
432 | different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of | |
433 | DMA*. | |
434 | ||
435 | * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded** | |
436 | ||
437 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. | |
438 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 | |
439 | :Date: 1996 | |
440 | :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, | |
441 | demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, | |
442 | virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI. | |
443 | :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles | |
444 | series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of | |
445 | five articles about character device drivers. In this final | |
446 | section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with | |
447 | an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts". | |
448 | ||
449 | * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management** | |
450 | ||
451 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
452 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 | |
453 | :Date: 1996 | |
454 | :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer | |
455 | variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, | |
456 | configuration, multicast. | |
457 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. | |
458 | :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally | |
459 | simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the | |
460 | hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*. | |
461 | ||
462 | * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure** | |
463 | ||
464 | :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. | |
465 | :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/ | |
466 | :Date: 1994 | |
467 | :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. | |
468 | :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, | |
469 | bitmaps, invariants... | |
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471 | Published books |
472 | --------------- | |
9e03ea7f | 473 | |
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474 | * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln** |
475 | ||
476 | :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst | |
477 | :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag | |
478 | :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition) | |
479 | :Pages: 688 | |
480 | :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8 | |
481 | :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is | |
482 | much cheaper and still quite up-to-date. | |
483 | ||
484 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory** | |
485 | ||
486 | :Author: Rami Rosen | |
487 | :Publisher: Apress | |
488 | :Date: December 22, 2013 | |
489 | :Pages: 648 | |
490 | :ISBN: 978-1430261964 | |
491 | ||
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492 | * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition** |
493 | ||
494 | :Author: Christopher Hallinan | |
495 | :Publisher: Pearson | |
496 | :Date: November, 2010 | |
497 | :Pages: 656 | |
498 | :ISBN: 978-0137017836 | |
499 | ||
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500 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition** |
501 | ||
502 | :Author: Robert Love | |
503 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | |
504 | :Date: July, 2010 | |
505 | :Pages: 440 | |
506 | :ISBN: 978-0672329463 | |
507 | ||
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508 | * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers** |
509 | ||
510 | :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran | |
511 | :Published: Prentice Hall | |
512 | :Date: April, 2008 | |
513 | :Pages: 744 | |
514 | :ISBN: 978-0132396554 | |
515 | ||
d8b7165f | 516 | .. _ldd3_published: |
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517 | |
518 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition** | |
519 | ||
520 | :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
521 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates | |
522 | :Date: 2005 | |
523 | :Pages: 636 | |
524 | :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 | |
525 | :Notes: Further information in | |
526 | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ | |
527 | PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ | |
528 | ||
529 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals** | |
530 | ||
531 | :Author: Michael Beck | |
532 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | |
533 | :Date: 1997 | |
534 | :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition) | |
535 | ||
cefd1f72 | 536 | * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau** |
a8332a07 | 537 | |
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538 | :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel |
539 | :Publisher: Eyrolles | |
540 | :Date: 1997 | |
541 | :Pages: 520 | |
542 | :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5 | |
543 | :Notes: French | |
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544 | |
545 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System** | |
546 | ||
547 | :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, | |
548 | John S. Quarterman | |
549 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | |
550 | :Date: 1996 | |
551 | :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4 | |
552 | ||
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553 | * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers** |
554 | ||
555 | :Author: Uresh Vahalia | |
556 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall | |
557 | :Date: 1996 | |
558 | :Pages: 600 | |
559 | :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 | |
560 | ||
561 | * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4** | |
562 | ||
563 | :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister | |
564 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc | |
565 | :Date: 1995 | |
cc68fd95 | 566 | :Pages: 552 |
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567 | :ISBN: I-56592-074-0 |
568 | :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be | |
569 | POSIX. Good reference. | |
570 | ||
571 | * Title: **UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers** | |
572 | ||
573 | :Author: Curt Schimmel | |
574 | :Publisher: Addison Wesley | |
575 | :Date: June, 1994 | |
576 | :Pages: 432 | |
577 | :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8 | |
578 | ||
cefd1f72 | 579 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System** |
a8332a07 | 580 | |
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581 | :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J |
582 | Karels, John S. Quarterman | |
a8332a07 | 583 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley |
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584 | :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990) |
585 | :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1 | |
a8332a07 | 586 | |
cefd1f72 | 587 | * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System** |
a8332a07 | 588 | |
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589 | :Author: Maurice J. Bach |
590 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall | |
591 | :Date: 1986 | |
592 | :Pages: 471 | |
593 | :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 | |
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596 | ------------- |
597 | ||
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598 | * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux** |
599 | ||
600 | :URL: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ | |
601 | :Keywords: Browsing source code. | |
602 | :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser. | |
603 | Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see | |
604 | where they are defined and where they are used. | |
605 | ||
606 | * Name: **Linux Weekly News** | |
607 | ||
608 | :URL: http://lwn.net | |
609 | :Keywords: latest kernel news. | |
610 | :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section | |
611 | summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions | |
612 | produced during the week. Published every Thursday. | |
613 | ||
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614 | * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** |
615 | ||
616 | :Author: The Linux-MM team. | |
617 | :URL: http://linux-mm.org/ | |
618 | :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, | |
619 | mailing list. | |
620 | :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. | |
621 | Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss | |
622 | it if you are interested in memory management development! | |
623 | ||
624 | * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website** | |
625 | ||
626 | :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org | |
627 | :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts. | |
628 | :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net. | |
629 | #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie' | |
630 | kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are | |
631 | learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or | |
632 | professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel | |
633 | people. | |
634 | #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network. | |
635 | Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies. | |
636 | The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs... | |
637 | ||
638 | * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines** | |
639 | ||
640 | :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html | |
641 | :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html | |
642 | :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel | |
643 | :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search. | |
644 | :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If | |
645 | you have a better/another one, please let me know. | |
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646 | |
647 | ------- | |
648 | ||
cc68fd95 | 649 | Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20 |
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650 | |
651 | This document is based on: | |
652 | http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html |