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2 | Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or |
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4 | Understanding the Linux Kernel. |
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6 | Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> |
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8 | /* |
9 | * The latest version of this document may be found at: |
10 | * http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html |
11 | */ |
12 | |
13 | The need for a document like this one became apparent in the |
14 | linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers |
15 | to information, appeared again and again. |
16 | |
17 | Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more |
18 | get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always |
19 | enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the |
20 | philosophy and design decisions behind this code. |
21 | |
22 | Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to |
23 | start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which |
24 | kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents |
25 | available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference |
26 | books are also mentioned. |
27 | |
28 | PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document, |
29 | send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any |
30 | corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed. |
31 | |
32 | The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are |
33 | cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the |
34 | "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful |
35 | when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the |
36 | Document. |
37 | |
38 | Enjoy! |
39 | |
40 | ON-LINE DOCS: |
41 | |
42 | * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition" |
43 | Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman |
44 | URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ |
45 | Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver |
46 | programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the |
47 | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. |
48 | |
49 | * Title: "The Linux Kernel" |
50 | Author: David A. Rusling. |
51 | URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html |
52 | Keywords: everything!, book. |
53 | Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of |
54 | the Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners. |
55 | Lots of illustrations explaining data structures use and |
56 | relationships in the purest Richard W. Stevens' style. Contents: |
57 | "1.-Hardware Basics, 2.-Software Basics, 3.-Memory Management, |
58 | 4.-Processes, 5.-Interprocess Communication Mechanisms, 6.-PCI, |
59 | 7.-Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, 8.-Device Drivers, 9.-The |
60 | File system, 10.-Networks, 11.-Kernel Mechanisms, 12.-Modules, |
61 | 13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The |
62 | Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU |
63 | General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have. |
64 | |
65 | * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition" |
66 | Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet. |
67 | URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html |
68 | Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware, |
69 | interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA, |
70 | buses. |
71 | Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the |
72 | GNU Free Documentation License. |
73 | Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below |
74 | under BOOKS (Not on-line). |
75 | |
76 | * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel" |
77 | Author: Ivan T. Bowman. |
78 | URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ |
79 | Keywords: conceptual software architecture, extracted design, |
80 | reverse engineering, system structure. |
81 | Description: Conceptual software architecture of the Linux kernel, |
82 | automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good |
83 | figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. |
84 | |
85 | * Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel" |
86 | Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan. |
87 | URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ |
88 | Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse |
89 | engineering, system structure, dependencies. |
90 | Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel, |
91 | automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good |
92 | figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers |
93 | focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...). |
94 | |
95 | * Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software |
96 | Architecture" |
97 | Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster. |
98 | URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ |
99 | Keywords: software architecture, architecture recovery, |
100 | redocumentation. |
101 | Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22, |
102 | 1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same |
103 | author. |
104 | |
105 | * Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System" |
106 | Author: Richard Gooch. |
107 | URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt |
108 | Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files, |
109 | dentries, dcache. |
110 | Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System. |
111 | What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or |
112 | mounting a file system and description of important data |
113 | structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries. |
114 | |
115 | * Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code" |
116 | Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. |
117 | URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 |
118 | Keywords: RAID, MD driver. |
119 | Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
120 | abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, |
121 | RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the |
122 | Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, |
123 | secondary-storage capability using software". |
124 | |
125 | * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers" |
126 | Author: Alessandro Rubini. |
127 | URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 |
128 | Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, |
129 | allocating resources. |
130 | Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
131 | abstract: "This is the first of a series of four articles |
132 | co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present |
133 | a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel |
134 | loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the |
135 | topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's |
136 | installment". |
137 | |
138 | * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery" |
139 | Author: Alessandro Rubini. |
140 | URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 |
141 | Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, |
142 | autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, |
143 | open(), close(). |
144 | Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
145 | abstract: "This article, the second of four, introduces part of |
146 | the actual code to create custom module implementing a character |
147 | device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and |
148 | cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls". |
149 | |
150 | * Title: "The Devil's in the Details" |
151 | Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. |
152 | URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 |
153 | Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non |
154 | blocking mode, interrupt handler. |
155 | Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
156 | abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character |
157 | device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using |
158 | ioctl-calls". |
159 | |
160 | * Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA" |
161 | Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. |
162 | URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 |
163 | Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. |
164 | Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
165 | abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about |
166 | writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This |
167 | month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling. |
168 | Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and |
169 | constraints make this an ``interesting'' part of device driver |
170 | writing, and several different facilities have been provided for |
171 | different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of |
172 | DMA". |
173 | |
174 | * Title: "Device Drivers Concluded" |
175 | Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. |
176 | URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 |
177 | Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, |
178 | demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, |
179 | virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI. |
180 | Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles |
181 | series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of |
182 | five articles about character device drivers. In this final |
183 | section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with |
184 | an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts". |
185 | |
186 | * Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management" |
187 | Author: Alan Cox. |
188 | URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 |
189 | Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer |
190 | variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, |
191 | configuration, multicast. |
192 | Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. Here is the abstract: |
193 | "Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally |
194 | simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the |
195 | hardware) involves managing network packets in memory". |
196 | |
197 | * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers" |
198 | Author: Michael K. Johnson. |
199 | URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html |
200 | Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character |
201 | vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to |
202 | user memory, memory allocation, timers. |
203 | Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing |
204 | device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel |
205 | Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic. |
206 | |
207 | * Title: "The Venus kernel interface" |
208 | Author: Peter J. Braam. |
209 | URL: |
210 | http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html |
211 | Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager. |
212 | Description: "This document describes the communication between |
213 | Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation |
214 | of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe |
215 | the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we |
216 | envisage". |
217 | |
218 | * Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux" |
219 | Author: Claus Schroeter. |
220 | URL: |
221 | ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz |
222 | Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering. |
223 | Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux. |
224 | Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem, |
225 | as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices |
226 | and perform busmastering. |
227 | |
228 | * Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux" |
229 | Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter. |
230 | URL: |
231 | ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz |
232 | Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing |
233 | ports in user space, kernel environment. |
234 | Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little |
235 | bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful. |
236 | |
237 | * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended |
238 | Filesystem" |
239 | Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. |
240 | URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html |
241 | Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, |
242 | VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, |
243 | ext2fs tools, e2fsck. |
244 | Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers. |
245 | Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features, |
246 | design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks, |
247 | e2fsck's passes description... A must read! |
248 | Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the |
249 | First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9. |
250 | |
251 | * Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure" |
252 | Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. |
253 | URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/ |
254 | Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. |
255 | Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, |
256 | bitmaps, invariants... |
257 | |
258 | * Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem" |
259 | Author: Stephen C. Tweedie. |
260 | URL: |
261 | ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz |
262 | Keywords: ext3, journaling. |
263 | Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling |
264 | capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different |
265 | problems faced and the alternatives chosen. |
266 | |
267 | * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2" |
268 | Author: Richard Gooch. |
269 | URL: |
270 | http://www.linuxhq.com/guides/LKMPG/node28.html |
271 | Keywords: 2.2, changes. |
272 | Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed |
273 | from 2.0.x to 2.2.x. |
274 | |
275 | * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4" |
276 | Author: Richard Gooch. |
277 | Keywords: 2.4, changes. |
278 | Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed |
279 | from 2.2.x to 2.4.x. |
280 | |
281 | * Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide" |
282 | Author: Ori Pomerantz. |
283 | URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html |
284 | Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, |
285 | interrupt handlers . |
286 | Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules |
287 | programming. Lots of examples. |
288 | |
289 | * Title: "I/O Event Handling Under Linux" |
290 | Author: Richard Gooch. |
291 | Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness |
292 | event queues. |
293 | Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about |
294 | how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of |
295 | open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your |
296 | application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active |
297 | (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you |
298 | want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of |
299 | inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage". |
300 | |
301 | * Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO" |
302 | Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. |
303 | Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking/ |
304 | (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) |
305 | Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules, |
306 | symbols, return conventions. |
307 | Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I |
308 | never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified, |
309 | but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I |
310 | simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points |
311 | into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's |
312 | what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful |
313 | routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an |
314 | understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was |
315 | originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it |
316 | applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different". |
317 | |
318 | * Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver" |
319 | Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> |
320 | URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html |
321 | Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. |
322 | Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, |
323 | both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel |
324 | sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. |
325 | |
326 | * Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers" |
327 | Author: Detlef Fliegl. |
328 | URL: http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/ |
329 | Keywords: USB, universal serial bus. |
330 | Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should |
331 | give detailed information about the current state of the USB |
332 | subsystem and its API for USB device drivers. The first section |
333 | will deal with the basics of USB devices. You will learn about |
334 | different types of devices and their properties. Going into detail |
335 | you will see how USB devices communicate on the bus. The second |
336 | section gives an overview of the Linux USB subsystem [2] and the |
337 | device driver framework. Then the API and its data structures will |
338 | be explained step by step. The last section of this document |
339 | contains a reference of all API calls and their return codes". |
340 | Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be |
341 | published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission |
342 | of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read... |
343 | |
344 | * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary" |
345 | Author: various |
346 | URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ |
347 | Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel. |
348 | Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as |
349 | a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear |
350 | during discussion of the Linux kernel". |
351 | |
352 | * Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO" |
353 | Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. |
354 | Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking/ |
355 | (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) |
356 | Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race |
357 | condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs. |
358 | Description: The title says it all: document describing the |
359 | locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP |
360 | systems. |
361 | Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3 |
362 | kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly |
363 | different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU |
364 | General Public License. |
365 | |
366 | * Title: "Global spinlock list and usage" |
367 | Author: Rick Lindsley. |
368 | URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock |
369 | Keywords: spinlock. |
370 | Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and |
371 | usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive |
372 | list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions |
373 | access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it |
374 | is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... |
375 | |
376 | * Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New |
377 | Features " |
378 | Author: Alan Cox. |
379 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/gear_01.html |
380 | Keywords: ports, porting. |
381 | Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to |
382 | 2.2 kernels. |
383 | |
384 | * Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II" |
385 | Author: Alan Cox. |
386 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/238 |
387 | Keywords: ports, porting. |
388 | Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels. |
389 | |
390 | * Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power |
391 | Macintosh" |
392 | Author: Paul Mackerras. |
393 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261 |
394 | Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility. |
395 | Description: The title says it all. |
396 | |
397 | * Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers" |
398 | Author: Alan Cox. |
399 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284 |
400 | Keywords: SCSI, device, driver. |
401 | Description: The title says it all. |
402 | |
403 | * Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales" |
404 | Author: Alan Cox. |
405 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307 |
406 | Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced. |
407 | Description: The title says it all. |
408 | |
409 | * Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers" |
410 | Author: Alan Cox. |
411 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330 |
412 | Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. |
413 | Description: The title says it all. |
414 | |
415 | * Title: "More on Mouse Drivers" |
416 | Author: Alan Cox. |
417 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356 |
418 | Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O. |
419 | Description: The title still says it all. |
420 | |
421 | * Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver" |
422 | Author: Alan Cox. |
423 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381 |
424 | Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. |
425 | Description: The title says it all. |
426 | |
427 | * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device" |
428 | Author: Alan Cox. |
429 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406 |
430 | Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, |
431 | camera driver. |
432 | Description: The title says it all. |
433 | |
434 | * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices" |
435 | Author: Alan Cox. |
436 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429 |
437 | Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, |
438 | camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. |
439 | Description: The title says it all. |
440 | |
441 | * Title: "PCI Management in Linux 2.2" |
442 | Author: Alan Cox. |
443 | URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/452 |
444 | Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering. |
445 | Description: The title says it all. |
446 | |
447 | * Title: "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals" |
448 | Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig. |
449 | URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html |
450 | Keywords: Linux, kernel, booting, SMB boot, VFS, page cache. |
451 | Description: A little book used for a short training course. |
452 | Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup), |
453 | process management, VFS and more. |
454 | |
455 | * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and |
456 | Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack." |
457 | Author: Glenn Herrin. |
458 | URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin |
459 | Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection, |
460 | socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, |
461 | modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags. |
462 | Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking, |
463 | explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space |
464 | configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of |
465 | the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps |
466 | packets follow from the time they are received at the network |
467 | device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel |
468 | code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet |
469 | dropper example. |
470 | |
471 | * Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux." |
472 | Author: Alex Ivchenko. |
473 | URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html |
474 | Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts, |
475 | memory allocation. |
476 | Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data |
477 | acquisition boards work on their GNU/Linux machines. Gives a basic |
478 | overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to |
479 | interrupt handling. |
480 | Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at |
481 | URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html |
482 | |
483 | * Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide" |
484 | Author: David Hinds. |
485 | URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html |
486 | Keywords: PCMCIA. |
487 | Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device |
488 | drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also |
489 | describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with |
490 | Card Services. |
491 | |
492 | * Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation" |
493 | Author: Neil Brown. |
494 | URL: |
495 | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html |
496 | Keywords: knfsd, nfsd, NFS, RPC, lockd, mountd, statd. |
497 | Description: The title says it all. |
498 | Notes: Covers knfsd's version 1.4.7 (patch against 2.2.7 kernel). |
499 | |
500 | * Title: "A Linux vm README" |
501 | Author: Kanoj Sarcar. |
502 | URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html |
503 | Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page |
504 | cache, swap cache, kswapd. |
505 | Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions |
506 | relating the Linux virtual memory implementation. |
507 | |
508 | * Title: "(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The |
509 | definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system |
510 | administrators." |
511 | Author: pragmatic/THC. |
512 | URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html |
513 | Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table. |
514 | Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in |
515 | order to intercept and modify syscalls, make |
516 | files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys, |
517 | write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to |
518 | avoid all those abuses. |
519 | Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x |
520 | kernels. |
521 | |
522 | BOOKS: (Not on-line) |
523 | |
524 | * Title: "Linux Device Drivers" |
525 | Author: Alessandro Rubini. |
526 | Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. |
527 | Date: 1998. |
528 | Pages: 439. |
529 | ISBN: 1-56592-292-1 |
530 | |
531 | * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition" |
532 | Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet. |
533 | Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. |
534 | Date: 2001. |
535 | Pages: 586. |
536 | ISBN: 0-59600-008-1 |
537 | Notes: Further information in |
538 | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/ |
539 | |
540 | * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition" |
541 | Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman |
542 | Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. |
543 | Date: 2005. |
544 | Pages: 636. |
545 | ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 |
546 | Notes: Further information in |
547 | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ |
548 | PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ |
549 | |
550 | * Title: "Linux Kernel Internals" |
551 | Author: Michael Beck. |
552 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley. |
553 | Date: 1997. |
554 | ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition) |
555 | |
556 | * Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" |
557 | Author: Maurice J. Bach. |
558 | Publisher: Prentice Hall. |
559 | Date: 1986. |
560 | Pages: 471. |
561 | ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 |
562 | |
563 | * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX |
564 | Operating System" |
565 | Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. |
566 | Karels, John S. Quarterman. |
567 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley. |
568 | Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990). |
569 | ISBN: 0-201-06196-1 |
570 | |
571 | * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX |
572 | Operating System" |
573 | Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, |
574 | John S. Quarterman. |
575 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley. |
576 | Date: 1996. |
577 | ISBN: 0-201-54979-4 |
578 | |
579 | * Title: "Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du |
580 | noyau" |
581 | Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel. |
582 | Publisher: Eyrolles. |
583 | Date: 1997. |
584 | Pages: 520. |
585 | ISBN: 2-212-08932-5 |
586 | Notes: French. |
587 | |
588 | * Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers" |
589 | Author: Uresh Vahalia. |
590 | Publisher: Prentice Hall. |
591 | Date: 1996. |
592 | Pages: 600. |
593 | ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 |
594 | |
595 | * Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4" |
596 | Author: Bill O. Gallmeister. |
597 | Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.. |
598 | Date: 1995. |
599 | Pages: ???. |
600 | ISBN: I-56592-074-0 |
601 | Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be |
602 | POSIX. Good reference. |
603 | |
604 | * Title: "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric |
605 | Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers" |
606 | Author: Curt Schimmel. |
607 | Publisher: Addison Wesley. |
608 | Date: June, 1994. |
609 | Pages: 432. |
610 | ISBN: 0-201-63338-8 |
611 | |
612 | MISCELLANEOUS: |
613 | |
614 | * Name: linux/Documentation |
615 | Author: Many. |
616 | URL: Just look inside your kernel sources. |
617 | Keywords: anything, DocBook. |
618 | Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources, |
619 | inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document |
620 | (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might |
621 | be more up to date than the web version. |
622 | |
623 | * Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference" |
624 | Author: Thomas Graichen. |
625 | URL: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=96446640102205&w=4 |
626 | Keywords: CVS, web, cvsweb, browsing source code. |
627 | Description: Web interface to a CVS server with the kernel |
628 | sources. "Here you can have a look at any file of the Linux kernel |
629 | sources of any version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated) |
630 | current version available. Also you can check the differences |
631 | between two versions of a file". |
632 | |
633 | * Name: "Cross-Referencing Linux" |
634 | URL: http://lxr.linux.no/source/ |
635 | Keywords: Browsing source code. |
636 | Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser. |
637 | Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see |
638 | where they are defined and where they are used. |
639 | |
640 | * Name: "Linux Weekly News" |
641 | URL: http://lwn.net |
642 | Keywords: latest kernel news. |
643 | Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section |
644 | summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions |
645 | produced during the week. Published every Thursday. |
646 | |
647 | * Name: "Kernel Traffic" |
648 | URL: http://kt.earth.li/kernel-traffic/index.html |
649 | Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news. |
650 | Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant |
651 | discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list. |
652 | |
653 | * Name: "CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX" |
654 | URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org |
655 | Keywords: changelist. |
656 | Description: Site which provides the changelist for every kernel |
657 | release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads |
658 | the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there, |
659 | too. |
660 | |
661 | * Name: "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ" |
662 | URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |
663 | Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ. |
664 | Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to |
665 | communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing |
666 | list FAQ maintained by Frohwalt Egerer, who no longer maintains |
667 | it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of |
668 | interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who |
669 | is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it. |
670 | |
671 | * Name: "Linux Virtual File System" |
672 | Author: Peter J. Braam. |
673 | URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ |
674 | Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache. |
675 | Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the |
676 | Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the |
677 | dcache. |
678 | |
679 | * Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel" |
680 | Author: Gary (I suppose...). |
681 | URL: http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/index.html |
682 | Keywords: linux, community, everything! |
683 | Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding |
684 | of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux |
685 | users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major |
686 | categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents, |
687 | sites... This list is now hosted by developer.Berlios.de, |
688 | but seems not to have been updated since sometime in 1999. |
689 | |
690 | * Name: "The home page of Linux-MM" |
691 | Author: The Linux-MM team. |
692 | URL: http://linux-mm.org/ |
693 | Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, |
694 | mailing list. |
695 | Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. |
696 | Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss |
697 | it if you are interested in memory management development! |
698 | |
699 | * Name: "Kernel Newbies IRC Channel" |
700 | URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org |
701 | Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts. |
702 | Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.openprojects.net. From the web |
703 | page: "#kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie' |
704 | kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are |
705 | learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or |
706 | professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel |
707 | people. [...] #kernelnewbies is on the Open Projects IRC Network, |
708 | try irc.openprojects.net or irc.<country>.openprojects.net as your |
709 | server and then /join #kernelnewbies". It also hosts articles, |
710 | documents, FAQs... |
711 | |
712 | * Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines" |
713 | URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html |
714 | URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html |
715 | URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel |
716 | URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel |
717 | URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/ |
718 | URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/ |
719 | Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search. |
720 | Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If |
721 | you have a better/another one, please let me know. |
722 | _________________________________________________________________ |
723 | |
724 | Document last updated on Sat 2005-NOV-19 |
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