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   5 <book id="LinuxKernelAPI">
   6  <bookinfo>
   7   <title>The Linux Kernel API</title>
   8
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  31
  32    <para>
  33      For more details see the file COPYING in the source
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  38
  39 <toc></toc>
  40
  41   <chapter id="adt">
  42      <title>Data Types</title>
  43      <sect1><title>Doubly Linked Lists</title>
  44 !Iinclude/linux/list.h
  45      </sect1>
  46   </chapter>
  47
  48   <chapter id="libc">
  49      <title>Basic C Library Functions</title>
  50
  51      <para>
  52        When writing drivers, you cannot in general use routines which are
  53        from the C Library.  Some of the functions have been found generally
  54        useful and they are listed below.  The behaviour of these functions
  55        may vary slightly from those defined by ANSI, and these deviations
  56        are noted in the text.
  57      </para>
  58
  59      <sect1><title>String Conversions</title>
  60 !Elib/vsprintf.c
  61      </sect1>
  62      <sect1><title>String Manipulation</title>
  63 <!-- All functions are exported at now
  64 X!Ilib/string.c
  65  -->
  66 !Elib/string.c
  67      </sect1>
  68      <sect1><title>Bit Operations</title>
  69 !Iarch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
  70      </sect1>
  71   </chapter>
  72
  73   <chapter id="kernel-lib">
  74      <title>Basic Kernel Library Functions</title>
  75
  76      <para>
  77        The Linux kernel provides more basic utility functions.
  78      </para>
  79
  80      <sect1><title>Bitmap Operations</title>
  81 !Elib/bitmap.c
  82 !Ilib/bitmap.c
  83      </sect1>
  84
  85      <sect1><title>Command-line Parsing</title>
  86 !Elib/cmdline.c
  87      </sect1>
  88
  89      <sect1 id="crc"><title>CRC Functions</title>
  90 !Elib/crc7.c
  91 !Elib/crc16.c
  92 !Elib/crc-itu-t.c
  93 !Elib/crc32.c
  94 !Elib/crc-ccitt.c
  95      </sect1>
  96
  97      <sect1 id="idr"><title>idr/ida Functions</title>
  98 !Pinclude/linux/idr.h idr sync
  99 !Plib/idr.c IDA description
 100 !Elib/idr.c
 101      </sect1>
 102   </chapter>
 103
 104   <chapter id="mm">
 105      <title>Memory Management in Linux</title>
 106      <sect1><title>The Slab Cache</title>
 107 !Iinclude/linux/slab.h
 108 !Emm/slab.c
 109      </sect1>
 110      <sect1><title>User Space Memory Access</title>
 111 !Iarch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h
 112 !Earch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
 113      </sect1>
 114      <sect1><title>More Memory Management Functions</title>
 115 !Emm/readahead.c
 116 !Emm/filemap.c
 117 !Emm/memory.c
 118 !Emm/vmalloc.c
 119 !Imm/page_alloc.c
 120 !Emm/mempool.c
 121 !Emm/dmapool.c
 122 !Emm/page-writeback.c
 123 !Emm/truncate.c
 124      </sect1>
 125   </chapter>
 126
 127
 128   <chapter id="ipc">
 129      <title>Kernel IPC facilities</title>
 130
 131      <sect1><title>IPC utilities</title>
 132 !Iipc/util.c
 133      </sect1>
 134   </chapter>
 135
 136   <chapter id="kfifo">
 137      <title>FIFO Buffer</title>
 138      <sect1><title>kfifo interface</title>
 139 !Iinclude/linux/kfifo.h
 140      </sect1>
 141   </chapter>
 142
 143   <chapter id="relayfs">
 144      <title>relay interface support</title>
 145
 146      <para>
 147         Relay interface support
 148         is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
 149         facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
 150         user space.
 151      </para>
 152
 153      <sect1><title>relay interface</title>
 154 !Ekernel/relay.c
 155 !Ikernel/relay.c
 156      </sect1>
 157   </chapter>
 158
 159   <chapter id="modload">
 160      <title>Module Support</title>
 161      <sect1><title>Module Loading</title>
 162 !Ekernel/kmod.c
 163      </sect1>
 164      <sect1><title>Inter Module support</title>
 165         <para>
 166            Refer to the file kernel/module.c for more information.
 167         </para>
 168 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
 169 X!Ekernel/module.c
 170 -->
 171      </sect1>
 172   </chapter>
 173
 174   <chapter id="hardware">
 175      <title>Hardware Interfaces</title>
 176      <sect1><title>Interrupt Handling</title>
 177 !Ekernel/irq/manage.c
 178      </sect1>
 179
 180      <sect1><title>DMA Channels</title>
 181 !Ekernel/dma.c
 182      </sect1>
 183
 184      <sect1><title>Resources Management</title>
 185 !Ikernel/resource.c
 186 !Ekernel/resource.c
 187      </sect1>
 188
 189      <sect1><title>MTRR Handling</title>
 190 !Earch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
 191      </sect1>
 192
 193      <sect1><title>PCI Support Library</title>
 194 !Edrivers/pci/pci.c
 195 !Edrivers/pci/pci-driver.c
 196 !Edrivers/pci/remove.c
 197 !Edrivers/pci/search.c
 198 !Edrivers/pci/msi.c
 199 !Edrivers/pci/bus.c
 200 !Edrivers/pci/access.c
 201 !Edrivers/pci/irq.c
 202 !Edrivers/pci/htirq.c
 203 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
 204 X!Edrivers/pci/hotplug.c
 205 -->
 206 !Edrivers/pci/probe.c
 207 !Edrivers/pci/slot.c
 208 !Edrivers/pci/rom.c
 209 !Edrivers/pci/iov.c
 210 !Idrivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
 211      </sect1>
 212      <sect1><title>PCI Hotplug Support Library</title>
 213 !Edrivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c
 214      </sect1>
 215   </chapter>
 216
 217   <chapter id="firmware">
 218      <title>Firmware Interfaces</title>
 219      <sect1><title>DMI Interfaces</title>
 220 !Edrivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
 221      </sect1>
 222      <sect1><title>EDD Interfaces</title>
 223 !Idrivers/firmware/edd.c
 224      </sect1>
 225   </chapter>
 226
 227   <chapter id="security">
 228      <title>Security Framework</title>
 229 !Isecurity/security.c
 230 !Esecurity/inode.c
 231   </chapter>
 232
 233   <chapter id="audit">
 234      <title>Audit Interfaces</title>
 235 !Ekernel/audit.c
 236 !Ikernel/auditsc.c
 237 !Ikernel/auditfilter.c
 238   </chapter>
 239
 240   <chapter id="accounting">
 241      <title>Accounting Framework</title>
 242 !Ikernel/acct.c
 243   </chapter>
 244
 245   <chapter id="blkdev">
 246      <title>Block Devices</title>
 247 !Eblock/blk-core.c
 248 !Iblock/blk-core.c
 249 !Eblock/blk-map.c
 250 !Iblock/blk-sysfs.c
 251 !Eblock/blk-settings.c
 252 !Eblock/blk-exec.c
 253 !Eblock/blk-flush.c
 254 !Eblock/blk-lib.c
 255 !Eblock/blk-tag.c
 256 !Iblock/blk-tag.c
 257 !Eblock/blk-integrity.c
 258 !Ikernel/trace/blktrace.c
 259 !Iblock/genhd.c
 260 !Eblock/genhd.c
 261   </chapter>
 262
 263   <chapter id="chrdev">
 264         <title>Char devices</title>
 265 !Efs/char_dev.c
 266   </chapter>
 267
 268   <chapter id="miscdev">
 269      <title>Miscellaneous Devices</title>
 270 !Edrivers/char/misc.c
 271   </chapter>
 272
 273   <chapter id="clk">
 274      <title>Clock Framework</title>
 275
 276      <para>
 277         The clock framework defines programming interfaces to support
 278         software management of the system clock tree.
 279         This framework is widely used with System-On-Chip (SOC) platforms
 280         to support power management and various devices which may need
 281         custom clock rates.
 282         Note that these "clocks" don't relate to timekeeping or real
 283         time clocks (RTCs), each of which have separate frameworks.
 284         These <structname>struct clk</structname> instances may be used
 285         to manage for example a 96 MHz signal that is used to shift bits
 286         into and out of peripherals or busses, or otherwise trigger
 287         synchronous state machine transitions in system hardware.
 288      </para>
 289
 290      <para>
 291         Power management is supported by explicit software clock gating:
 292         unused clocks are disabled, so the system doesn't waste power
 293         changing the state of transistors that aren't in active use.
 294         On some systems this may be backed by hardware clock gating,
 295         where clocks are gated without being disabled in software.
 296         Sections of chips that are powered but not clocked may be able
 297         to retain their last state.
 298         This low power state is often called a <emphasis>retention
 299         mode</emphasis>.
 300         This mode still incurs leakage currents, especially with finer
 301         circuit geometries, but for CMOS circuits power is mostly used
 302         by clocked state changes.
 303      </para>
 304
 305      <para>
 306         Power-aware drivers only enable their clocks when the device
 307         they manage is in active use.  Also, system sleep states often
 308         differ according to which clock domains are active:  while a
 309         "standby" state may allow wakeup from several active domains, a
 310         "mem" (suspend-to-RAM) state may require a more wholesale shutdown
 311         of clocks derived from higher speed PLLs and oscillators, limiting
 312         the number of possible wakeup event sources.  A driver's suspend
 313         method may need to be aware of system-specific clock constraints
 314         on the target sleep state.
 315      </para>
 316
 317      <para>
 318         Some platforms support programmable clock generators.  These
 319         can be used by external chips of various kinds, such as other
 320         CPUs, multimedia codecs, and devices with strict requirements
 321         for interface clocking.
 322      </para>
 323
 324 !Iinclude/linux/clk.h
 325   </chapter>
 326
 327 </book>