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3 Index of Further Kernel Documentation 3 Index of Further Kernel Documentation
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5 5
6 The need for a document like this one became a !! 6 Initial Author: Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche (<jmseyas@dit.upm.es>;
7 mailing list as the same questions, asking for !! 7 email address is defunct now.)
8 appeared again and again. !! 8
9 !! 9 The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
10 Fortunately, as more and more people get to GN !! 10 linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
11 interested in the Kernel. But reading the sour !! 11 to information, appeared again and again.
12 is easy to understand the code, but miss the c !! 12
13 design decisions behind this code. !! 13 Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
14 !! 14 get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
15 Unfortunately, not many documents are availabl !! 15 enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
16 And, even if they exist, there was no "well-kn !! 16 philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
17 of them. These lines try to cover this lack. !! 17
>> 18 Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
>> 19 start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
>> 20 kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack.
18 21
19 PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here 22 PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
20 include a reference to it here, following the 23 include a reference to it here, following the kernel's patch submission
21 process. Any corrections, ideas or comments ar 24 process. Any corrections, ideas or comments are also welcome.
22 25
23 All documents are cataloged with the following 26 All documents are cataloged with the following fields: the document's
24 "Title", the "Author"/s, the "URL" where they !! 27 "Title", the "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some
25 helpful when searching for specific topics, an !! 28 "Keywords" helpful when searching for specific topics, and a brief
26 the Document. !! 29 "Description" of the Document.
27 30
28 .. note:: 31 .. note::
29 32
30 The documents on each section of this docum 33 The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
31 published date, from the newest to the olde !! 34 published date, from the newest to the oldest.
32 periodically retire resources as they becom <<
33 the exception of foundational books. <<
34 35
35 Docs at the Linux Kernel tree 36 Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
36 ----------------------------- 37 -----------------------------
37 38
38 The Sphinx books should be built with ``make { 39 The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``.
39 40
40 * Name: **linux/Documentation** 41 * Name: **linux/Documentation**
41 42
42 :Author: Many. 43 :Author: Many.
43 :Location: Documentation/ 44 :Location: Documentation/
44 :Keywords: text files, Sphinx. 45 :Keywords: text files, Sphinx.
45 :Description: Documentation that comes w 46 :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources,
46 inside the Documentation directory. So 47 inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
47 (including this document itself) have 48 (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
48 be more up to date than the web versio 49 be more up to date than the web version.
49 50
50 On-line docs 51 On-line docs
51 ------------ 52 ------------
52 53
53 * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Gloss 54 * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
54 55
55 :Author: various 56 :Author: various
56 :URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelGl 57 :URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelGlossary
57 :Date: rolling version 58 :Date: rolling version
58 :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel 59 :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
59 :Description: From the introduction: "Th 60 :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
60 a brief description of some of the acr 61 a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
61 during discussion of the Linux kernel" 62 during discussion of the Linux kernel".
62 63
>> 64 * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
>> 65
>> 66 :Author: Richard Sailer
>> 67 :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
>> 68 :Date: 2016
>> 69 :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
>> 70 :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
>> 71 understanding linux kernel internals,
>> 72 illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
>> 73 :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
>> 74 as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
>> 75 Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
>> 76 source code more determined and with context.
>> 77 In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
>> 78 and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
>> 79 Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
>> 80 exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
>> 81
63 * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Program 82 * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
64 83
65 :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Buri 84 :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
66 Jim Huang. 85 Jim Huang.
67 :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/ 86 :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
68 :Date: 2021 87 :Date: 2021
69 :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioc 88 :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
70 interrupt handlers . 89 interrupt handlers .
71 :Description: A very nice GPL book on th 90 :Description: A very nice GPL book on the topic of modules
72 programming. Lots of examples. Current 91 programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being
73 actively maintained at https://github. 92 actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg.
74 93
75 * Title: **Rust for Linux** !! 94 * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
76 95
77 :Author: various !! 96 :Author: Andi Kleen
78 :URL: https://rust-for-linux.com/ !! 97 :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
79 :Date: rolling version !! 98 :Date: 2008
80 :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel !! 99 :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
81 :Description: From the website: "Rust fo !! 100 :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
82 support for the Rust language to the L !! 101 there are and how likely they get merged.
83 intended as a hub of links, documentat !! 102 :Abstract:
84 the project". !! 103 [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
>> 104 submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
85 105
86 Published books !! 106 * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
87 --------------- <<
88 107
89 * Title: **Practical Linux System Administ !! 108 :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> 109 :URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
>> 110 :Date: 2005
>> 111 :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
>> 112 programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the
>> 113 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
>> 114 :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`.
90 115
91 :Author: Kenneth Hess !! 116 * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
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 <<
122 117
123 * Title: **Linux System Programming: Talki !! 118 :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
>> 119 :URL: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.html
>> 120 :Date: 2005
>> 121 :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
>> 122 :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
>> 123 both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
>> 124 sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
>> 125
>> 126 * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
>> 127
>> 128 :Author: David Hinds.
>> 129 :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
>> 130 :Date: 2003
>> 131 :Keywords: PCMCIA.
>> 132 :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
>> 133 drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
>> 134 describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
>> 135 Card Services.
>> 136
>> 137 * Title: **How NOT to write kernel drivers**
>> 138
>> 139 :Author: Arjan van de Ven.
>> 140 :URL: https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-545-555.pdf
>> 141 :Date: 2002
>> 142 :Keywords: driver.
>> 143 :Description: Programming bugs and Do-nots in kernel driver development
>> 144 :Abstract: *Quit a few tutorials, articles and books give an introduction
>> 145 on how to write Linux kernel drivers. Unfortunately the things one
>> 146 should NOT do in Linux kernel code is either only a minor appendix
>> 147 or, more commonly, completely absent. This paper tries to briefly touch
>> 148 the areas in which the most common and serious bugs and do-nots are
>> 149 encountered.*
>> 150
>> 151 * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
>> 152
>> 153 :Author: Rick Lindsley.
>> 154 :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
>> 155 :Date: 2001
>> 156 :Keywords: spinlock.
>> 157 :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
>> 158 usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
>> 159 list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
>> 160 access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
>> 161 is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
>> 162
>> 163 * Title: **A Linux vm README**
>> 164
>> 165 :Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
>> 166 :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
>> 167 :Date: 2001
>> 168 :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
>> 169 cache, swap cache, kswapd.
>> 170 :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
>> 171 relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
>> 172
>> 173 * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
>> 174
>> 175 :Author: Alan Cox.
>> 176 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
>> 177 :Date: 2000
>> 178 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
>> 179 camera driver.
>> 180 :Description: The title says it all.
>> 181
>> 182 * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
>> 183
>> 184 :Author: Alan Cox.
>> 185 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
>> 186 :Date: 2000
>> 187 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
>> 188 camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
>> 189 :Description: The title says it all.
>> 190
>> 191 * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
>> 192
>> 193 :Author: Glenn Herrin.
>> 194 :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
>> 195 :Date: 2000
>> 196 :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
>> 197 socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
>> 198 modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
>> 199 :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
>> 200 explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
>> 201 configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
>> 202 the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
>> 203 packets follow from the time they are received at the network
>> 204 device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
>> 205 code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
>> 206 dropper example.
>> 207
>> 208 * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
>> 209
>> 210 :Author: Paul Mackerras.
>> 211 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
>> 212 :Date: 1999
>> 213 :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
>> 214 :Description: The title says it all.
>> 215
>> 216 * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers**
>> 217
>> 218 :Author: Alan Cox.
>> 219 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
>> 220 :Date: 1999
>> 221 :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
>> 222 :Description: The title says it all.
>> 223
>> 224 * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales**
>> 225
>> 226 :Author: Alan Cox.
>> 227 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
>> 228 :Date: 1999
>> 229 :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
>> 230 :Description: The title says it all.
>> 231
>> 232 * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers**
>> 233
>> 234 :Author: Alan Cox.
>> 235 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
>> 236 :Date: 1999
>> 237 :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
>> 238 :Description: The title says it all.
>> 239
>> 240 * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
>> 241
>> 242 :Author: Alan Cox.
>> 243 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
>> 244 :Date: 1999
>> 245 :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
>> 246 :Description: The title still says it all.
>> 247
>> 248 * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver**
>> 249
>> 250 :Author: Alan Cox.
>> 251 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
>> 252 :Date: 1999
>> 253 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
>> 254 :Description: The title says it all.
>> 255
>> 256 * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
>> 257
>> 258 :Author: Richard Gooch.
>> 259 :URL: https://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
>> 260 :Date: 1999
>> 261 :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
>> 262 event queues.
>> 263 :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
>> 264 how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
>> 265 open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
>> 266 application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
>> 267 (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
>> 268 want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
>> 269 inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
>> 270
>> 271 * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
>> 272
>> 273 :Author: pragmatic/THC.
>> 274 :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
>> 275 :Date: 1999
>> 276 :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
>> 277 :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
>> 278 order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
>> 279 files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
>> 280 write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
>> 281 avoid all those abuses.
>> 282 :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
>> 283 kernels.
>> 284
>> 285 * Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
>> 286
>> 287 :Author: Peter J. Braam.
>> 288 :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
>> 289 :Date: 1998
>> 290 :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
>> 291 :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
>> 292 Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
>> 293 dcache.
>> 294
>> 295 * Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
>> 296
>> 297 :Author: Peter J. Braam.
>> 298 :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
>> 299 :Date: 1998
>> 300 :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
>> 301 :Description: "This document describes the communication between
>> 302 Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
>> 303 of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
>> 304 the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
>> 305 envisage".
>> 306
>> 307 * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
>> 308
>> 309 :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
>> 310 :URL: https://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
>> 311 :Date: 1998
>> 312 :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
>> 313 VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
>> 314 ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
>> 315 :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
>> 316 Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
>> 317 design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
>> 318 e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
>> 319 :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
>> 320 First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
>> 321
>> 322 * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
>> 323
>> 324 :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
>> 325 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
>> 326 :Date: 1997
>> 327 :Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
>> 328 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
>> 329 :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
>> 330 RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
>> 331 Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
>> 332 secondary-storage capability using software*.
>> 333
>> 334 * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
>> 335
>> 336 :Author: Michael K. Johnson.
>> 337 :URL: https://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
>> 338 :Date: 1997
>> 339 :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
>> 340 block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
>> 341 memory allocation, timers.
>> 342 :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
>> 343 concepts that are not intuitively obvious, and to document the internal
>> 344 structures of Linux.
>> 345
>> 346 * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
>> 347
>> 348 :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
>> 349 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
>> 350 :Date: 1996
>> 351 :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
>> 352 allocating resources.
>> 353 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
>> 354 :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
>> 355 co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
>> 356 a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
>> 357 loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
>> 358 topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
>> 359 installment*.
>> 360
>> 361 * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
>> 362
>> 363 :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
>> 364 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
>> 365 :Date: 1996
>> 366 :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
>> 367 autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
>> 368 open(), close().
>> 369 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
>> 370 :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
>> 371 the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
>> 372 device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
>> 373 cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
>> 374
>> 375 * Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
>> 376
>> 377 :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
>> 378 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
>> 379 :Date: 1996
>> 380 :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
>> 381 blocking mode, interrupt handler.
>> 382 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
>> 383 :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
>> 384 device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
>> 385 ioctl-calls*.
>> 386
>> 387 * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
>> 388
>> 389 :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
>> 390 :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
>> 391 :Date: 1996
>> 392 :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
>> 393 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
>> 394 :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
>> 395 writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
>> 396 month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
>> 397 Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
>> 398 constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
>> 399 writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
>> 400 different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
>> 401 DMA*.
>> 402
>> 403 * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
>> 404
>> 405 :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
>> 406 :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
>> 407 :Date: 1996
>> 408 :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
>> 409 demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
>> 410 virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
>> 411 :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
>> 412 series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
>> 413 five articles about character device drivers. In this final
>> 414 section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
>> 415 an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
>> 416
>> 417 * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
>> 418
>> 419 :Author: Alan Cox.
>> 420 :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
>> 421 :Date: 1996
>> 422 :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
>> 423 variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
>> 424 configuration, multicast.
>> 425 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
>> 426 :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
>> 427 simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
>> 428 hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
>> 429
>> 430 * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
>> 431
>> 432 :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
>> 433 :URL: https://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
>> 434 :Date: 1994
>> 435 :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
>> 436 :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
>> 437 bitmaps, invariants...
124 438
125 :Author: Robert Love !! 439 Published books
126 :Publisher: O'Reilly Media !! 440 ---------------
127 :Date: June, 2013 !! 441
128 :Pages: 456 !! 442 * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln**
129 :ISBN: 978-1449339531 !! 443
130 :Notes: Foundational book !! 444 :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst
>> 445 :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag
>> 446 :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition)
>> 447 :Pages: 688
>> 448 :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8
>> 449 :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is
>> 450 much cheaper and still quite up-to-date.
>> 451
>> 452 * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory**
>> 453
>> 454 :Author: Rami Rosen
>> 455 :Publisher: Apress
>> 456 :Date: December 22, 2013
>> 457 :Pages: 648
>> 458 :ISBN: 978-1430261964
>> 459
>> 460 * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition**
>> 461
>> 462 :Author: Christopher Hallinan
>> 463 :Publisher: Pearson
>> 464 :Date: November, 2010
>> 465 :Pages: 656
>> 466 :ISBN: 978-0137017836
131 467
132 * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd E 468 * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition**
133 469
134 :Author: Robert Love 470 :Author: Robert Love
135 :Publisher: Addison-Wesley 471 :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
136 :Date: July, 2010 472 :Date: July, 2010
137 :Pages: 440 473 :Pages: 440
138 :ISBN: 978-0672329463 474 :ISBN: 978-0672329463
139 :Notes: Foundational book !! 475
>> 476 * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers**
>> 477
>> 478 :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran
>> 479 :Published: Prentice Hall
>> 480 :Date: April, 2008
>> 481 :Pages: 744
>> 482 :ISBN: 978-0132396554
140 483
141 .. _ldd3_published: 484 .. _ldd3_published:
142 485
143 * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Editi 486 * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition**
144 487
145 :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Ru 488 :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
146 :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates 489 :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
147 :Date: 2005 490 :Date: 2005
148 :Pages: 636 491 :Pages: 636
149 :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 492 :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
150 :Notes: Foundational book. Further infor !! 493 :Notes: Further information in
151 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdr 494 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
152 PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kerne 495 PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
153 496
>> 497 * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals**
>> 498
>> 499 :Author: Michael Beck
>> 500 :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
>> 501 :Date: 1997
>> 502 :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
>> 503
>> 504 * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau**
>> 505
>> 506 :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel
>> 507 :Publisher: Eyrolles
>> 508 :Date: 1997
>> 509 :Pages: 520
>> 510 :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
>> 511 :Notes: French
>> 512
>> 513 * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System**
>> 514
>> 515 :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
>> 516 John S. Quarterman
>> 517 :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
>> 518 :Date: 1996
>> 519 :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
>> 520
>> 521 * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers**
>> 522
>> 523 :Author: Uresh Vahalia
>> 524 :Publisher: Prentice Hall
>> 525 :Date: 1996
>> 526 :Pages: 600
>> 527 :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
>> 528
>> 529 * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4**
>> 530
>> 531 :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
>> 532 :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
>> 533 :Date: 1995
>> 534 :Pages: 552
>> 535 :ISBN: I-56592-074-0
>> 536 :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
>> 537 POSIX. Good reference.
>> 538
>> 539 * Title: **UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers**
>> 540
>> 541 :Author: Curt Schimmel
>> 542 :Publisher: Addison Wesley
>> 543 :Date: June, 1994
>> 544 :Pages: 432
>> 545 :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
>> 546
>> 547 * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System**
>> 548
>> 549 :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J
>> 550 Karels, John S. Quarterman
>> 551 :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
>> 552 :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990)
>> 553 :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
>> 554
154 * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operatin 555 * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System**
155 556
156 :Author: Maurice J. Bach 557 :Author: Maurice J. Bach
157 :Publisher: Prentice Hall 558 :Publisher: Prentice Hall
158 :Date: 1986 559 :Date: 1986
159 :Pages: 471 560 :Pages: 471
160 :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 561 :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
161 :Notes: Foundational book <<
162 562
163 Miscellaneous 563 Miscellaneous
164 ------------- 564 -------------
165 565
166 * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux** 566 * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux**
167 567
168 :URL: https://elixir.bootlin.com/ 568 :URL: https://elixir.bootlin.com/
169 :Keywords: Browsing source code. 569 :Keywords: Browsing source code.
170 :Description: Another web-based Linux ke 570 :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
171 Lots of cross references to variables 571 Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
172 where they are defined and where they 572 where they are defined and where they are used.
173 573
174 * Name: **Linux Weekly News** 574 * Name: **Linux Weekly News**
175 575
176 :URL: https://lwn.net 576 :URL: https://lwn.net
177 :Keywords: latest kernel news. 577 :Keywords: latest kernel news.
178 :Description: The title says it all. The 578 :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
179 summarizing developers' work, bug fixe 579 summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
180 produced during the week. !! 580 produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
181 581
182 * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** 582 * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
183 583
184 :Author: The Linux-MM team. 584 :Author: The Linux-MM team.
185 :URL: https://linux-mm.org/ 585 :URL: https://linux-mm.org/
186 :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, 586 :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
187 mailing list. 587 mailing list.
188 :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memo 588 :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
189 Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, 589 Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
190 it if you are interested in memory man 590 it if you are interested in memory management development!
191 591
192 * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and W 592 * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website**
193 593
194 :URL: https://www.kernelnewbies.org 594 :URL: https://www.kernelnewbies.org
195 :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking 595 :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
196 :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc 596 :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net.
197 #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedic 597 #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
198 kernel hacker. The audience mostly con 598 kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are
199 learning about the kernel, working on 599 learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or
200 professional kernel hackers that want 600 professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
201 people. 601 people.
202 #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Netw 602 #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network.
203 Try irc.oftc.net as your server and th 603 Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies.
204 The kernelnewbies website also hosts a 604 The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs...
205 605
206 * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archiv 606 * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines**
207 607
208 :URL: https://subspace.kernel.org !! 608 :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
209 :URL: https://lore.kernel.org !! 609 :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
>> 610 :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
210 :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, searc 611 :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
211 :Description: Some of the linux-kernel m 612 :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
212 you have a better/another one, please 613 you have a better/another one, please let me know.
213 614
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 <<
223 ------- 615 -------
224 616
225 This document was originally based on: !! 617 Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20
226 618
>> 619 This document is based on:
227 https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/ 620 https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
228 <<
229 and written by Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <<
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