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3 Index of Further Kernel Documentation !! 3 Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel
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5 5
6 The need for a document like this one became a !! 6 Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
7 mailing list as the same questions, asking for !! 7
8 appeared again and again. !! 8 The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
9 !! 9 linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
10 Fortunately, as more and more people get to GN !! 10 to information, appeared again and again.
11 interested in the Kernel. But reading the sour !! 11
12 is easy to understand the code, but miss the c !! 12 Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
13 design decisions behind this code. !! 13 get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
14 !! 14 enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
15 Unfortunately, not many documents are availabl !! 15 philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
16 And, even if they exist, there was no "well-kn !! 16
17 of them. These lines try to cover this lack. !! 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.
18 22
19 PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here 23 PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
20 include a reference to it here, following the !! 24 send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
21 process. Any corrections, ideas or comments ar !! 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.
22 32
23 All documents are cataloged with the following !! 33 Enjoy!
24 "Title", the "Author"/s, the "URL" where they <<
25 helpful when searching for specific topics, an <<
26 the Document. <<
27 34
28 .. note:: 35 .. note::
29 36
30 The documents on each section of this docum 37 The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
31 published date, from the newest to the olde !! 38 published date, from the newest to the oldest.
32 periodically retire resources as they becom <<
33 the exception of foundational books. <<
34 39
35 Docs at the Linux Kernel tree 40 Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
36 ----------------------------- 41 -----------------------------
37 42
>> 43 The DocBook books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}``.
38 The Sphinx books should be built with ``make { 44 The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``.
39 45
40 * Name: **linux/Documentation** 46 * Name: **linux/Documentation**
41 47
42 :Author: Many. 48 :Author: Many.
43 :Location: Documentation/ 49 :Location: Documentation/
44 :Keywords: text files, Sphinx. !! 50 :Keywords: text files, Sphinx, DocBook.
45 :Description: Documentation that comes w 51 :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources,
46 inside the Documentation directory. So 52 inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
47 (including this document itself) have 53 (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
48 be more up to date than the web versio 54 be more up to date than the web version.
49 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
50 On-line docs 87 On-line docs
51 ------------ 88 ------------
52 89
53 * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Gloss 90 * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
54 91
55 :Author: various 92 :Author: various
56 :URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelGl !! 93 :URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
57 :Date: rolling version 94 :Date: rolling version
58 :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel 95 :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
59 :Description: From the introduction: "Th 96 :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
60 a brief description of some of the acr 97 a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
61 during discussion of the Linux kernel" 98 during discussion of the Linux kernel".
62 99
63 * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Program !! 100 * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
>> 101
>> 102 :Author: Richard Sailer
>> 103 :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
>> 104 :Date: 2016
>> 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
>> 118 * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
>> 119
>> 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.
>> 129
>> 130 * Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System**
>> 131
>> 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.
>> 141
>> 142 * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
>> 143
>> 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>`.
>> 151
>> 152 * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
64 153
65 :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Buri !! 154 :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
66 Jim Huang. !! 155 :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
67 :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/ !! 156 :Date: 2005
68 :Date: 2021 !! 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.
>> 161
>> 162 * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
>> 163
>> 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.
>> 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
>> 177 :Date: 2001
69 :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioc 178 :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
70 interrupt handlers . 179 interrupt handlers .
71 :Description: A very nice GPL book on th !! 180 :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
72 programming. Lots of examples. Current !! 181 programming. Lots of examples.
73 actively maintained at https://github. <<
74 182
75 * Title: **Rust for Linux** !! 183 * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
76 184
77 :Author: various !! 185 :Author: Rick Lindsley.
78 :URL: https://rust-for-linux.com/ !! 186 :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
79 :Date: rolling version !! 187 :Date: 2001
80 :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel !! 188 :Keywords: spinlock.
81 :Description: From the website: "Rust fo !! 189 :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
82 support for the Rust language to the L !! 190 usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
83 intended as a hub of links, documentat !! 191 list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
84 the project". !! 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
>> 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
>> 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
>> 244 :Date: 1999
>> 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
>> 252 :Date: 1999
>> 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
>> 260 :Date: 1999
>> 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
>> 268 :Date: 1999
>> 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
>> 276 :Date: 1999
>> 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
>> 284 :Date: 1999
>> 285 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
>> 286 :Description: The title says it all.
>> 287
>> 288 * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
>> 289
>> 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".
>> 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
>> 307 :Date: 1999
>> 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.
>> 316
>> 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
>> 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...
85 470
86 Published books 471 Published books
87 --------------- 472 ---------------
88 473
89 * Title: **Practical Linux System Administ !! 474 * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln**
90 <<
91 :Author: Kenneth Hess <<
92 :Publisher: O'Reilly Media <<
93 :Date: May, 2023 <<
94 :Pages: 246 <<
95 :ISBN: 978-1098109035 <<
96 :Notes: System administration <<
97 <<
98 * Title: **Linux Kernel Debugging: Leverag <<
99 <<
100 :Author: Kaiwan N Billimoria <<
101 :Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd <<
102 :Date: August, 2022 <<
103 :Pages: 638 <<
104 :ISBN: 978-1801075039 <<
105 :Notes: Debugging book <<
106 <<
107 * Title: **Linux Kernel Programming: A Com <<
108 <<
109 :Author: Kaiwan N Billimoria <<
110 :Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd <<
111 :Date: March, 2021 (Second Edition publi <<
112 :Pages: 754 <<
113 :ISBN: 978-1789953435 (Second Edition IS <<
114 <<
115 * Title: **Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 <<
116 <<
117 :Author: Kaiwan N Billimoria <<
118 :Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd <<
119 :Date: March, 2021 <<
120 :Pages: 452 <<
121 :ISBN: 978-1801079518 <<
122 475
123 * Title: **Linux System Programming: Talki !! 476 :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst
124 !! 477 :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag
125 :Author: Robert Love !! 478 :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition)
126 :Publisher: O'Reilly Media !! 479 :Pages: 688
127 :Date: June, 2013 !! 480 :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8
128 :Pages: 456 !! 481 :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is
129 :ISBN: 978-1449339531 !! 482 much cheaper and still quite up-to-date.
130 :Notes: Foundational book !! 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
>> 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
131 499
132 * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd E 500 * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition**
133 501
134 :Author: Robert Love 502 :Author: Robert Love
135 :Publisher: Addison-Wesley 503 :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
136 :Date: July, 2010 504 :Date: July, 2010
137 :Pages: 440 505 :Pages: 440
138 :ISBN: 978-0672329463 506 :ISBN: 978-0672329463
139 :Notes: Foundational book !! 507
>> 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
140 515
141 .. _ldd3_published: 516 .. _ldd3_published:
142 517
143 * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Editi 518 * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition**
144 519
145 :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Ru 520 :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
146 :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates 521 :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
147 :Date: 2005 522 :Date: 2005
148 :Pages: 636 523 :Pages: 636
149 :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 524 :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
150 :Notes: Foundational book. Further infor !! 525 :Notes: Further information in
151 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdr 526 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
152 PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kerne !! 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
>> 536 * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau**
>> 537
>> 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
>> 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
>> 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
>> 566 :Pages: 552
>> 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
>> 579 * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System**
>> 580
>> 581 :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J
>> 582 Karels, John S. Quarterman
>> 583 :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
>> 584 :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990)
>> 585 :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
153 586
154 * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operatin 587 * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System**
155 588
156 :Author: Maurice J. Bach 589 :Author: Maurice J. Bach
157 :Publisher: Prentice Hall 590 :Publisher: Prentice Hall
158 :Date: 1986 591 :Date: 1986
159 :Pages: 471 592 :Pages: 471
160 :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 593 :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
161 :Notes: Foundational book <<
162 594
163 Miscellaneous 595 Miscellaneous
164 ------------- 596 -------------
165 597
166 * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux** 598 * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux**
167 599
168 :URL: https://elixir.bootlin.com/ !! 600 :URL: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/
169 :Keywords: Browsing source code. 601 :Keywords: Browsing source code.
170 :Description: Another web-based Linux ke 602 :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
171 Lots of cross references to variables 603 Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
172 where they are defined and where they 604 where they are defined and where they are used.
173 605
174 * Name: **Linux Weekly News** 606 * Name: **Linux Weekly News**
175 607
176 :URL: https://lwn.net !! 608 :URL: http://lwn.net
177 :Keywords: latest kernel news. 609 :Keywords: latest kernel news.
178 :Description: The title says it all. The 610 :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
179 summarizing developers' work, bug fixe 611 summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
180 produced during the week. !! 612 produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
181 613
182 * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** 614 * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
183 615
184 :Author: The Linux-MM team. 616 :Author: The Linux-MM team.
185 :URL: https://linux-mm.org/ !! 617 :URL: http://linux-mm.org/
186 :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, 618 :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
187 mailing list. 619 mailing list.
188 :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memo 620 :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
189 Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, 621 Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
190 it if you are interested in memory man 622 it if you are interested in memory management development!
191 623
192 * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and W 624 * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website**
193 625
194 :URL: https://www.kernelnewbies.org !! 626 :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org
195 :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking 627 :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
196 :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc 628 :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net.
197 #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedic 629 #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
198 kernel hacker. The audience mostly con 630 kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are
199 learning about the kernel, working on 631 learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or
200 professional kernel hackers that want 632 professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
201 people. 633 people.
202 #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Netw 634 #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network.
203 Try irc.oftc.net as your server and th 635 Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies.
204 The kernelnewbies website also hosts a 636 The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs...
205 637
206 * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archiv 638 * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines**
207 639
208 :URL: https://subspace.kernel.org !! 640 :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
209 :URL: https://lore.kernel.org !! 641 :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
>> 642 :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
210 :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, searc 643 :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
211 :Description: Some of the linux-kernel m 644 :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
212 you have a better/another one, please 645 you have a better/another one, please let me know.
213 646
214 * Name: **The Linux Foundation YouTube cha <<
215 <<
216 :URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/theli <<
217 :Keywords: linux, videos, linux-foundati <<
218 :Description: The Linux Foundation uploa <<
219 collaborative events, Linux conference <<
220 other original research and content re <<
221 development. <<
222 <<
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224 648
225 This document was originally based on: !! 649 Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20
226 <<
227 https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/ <<
228 650
229 and written by Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche !! 651 This document is based on:
>> 652 http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
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