- Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
-
- Understanding the Linux Kernel.
-
- Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche < jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
-
+ Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
+
+ Understanding the Linux Kernel.
+
+ Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
+
/*
* The latest version of this document may be found at:
* http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
ON-LINE DOCS:
+ * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition"
+ Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
+ URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
+ Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
+ programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the
+ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
+
* Title: "The Linux Kernel"
Author: David A. Rusling.
- URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/linux/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
+ URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
Keywords: everything!, book.
Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of
the Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners.
13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The
Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU
General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.
-
- * Title: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
- Author: Michael K.Johnson and others.
- URL: http://khg.redhat.com/HyperNews/get/khg.html
- Keywords: everything!
- Description: No more Postscript book-like version. Only HTML now.
- Many people have contributed. The interface is similar to web
- available mailing lists archives. You can find some articles and
- then some mails asking questions about them and/or complementing
- previous contributions. A little bit anarchic in this aspect, but
- with some valuable information in some cases.
-
+
+ * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
+ Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
+ URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
+ Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware,
+ interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA,
+ buses.
+ Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the
+ GNU Free Documentation License.
+ Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below
+ under BOOKS (Not on-line).
+
* Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
Author: Ivan T. Bowman.
- URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html
- Keywords: conceptual software arquitecture, extracted design,
+ URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/
+ Keywords: conceptual software architecture, extracted design,
reverse engineering, system structure.
- Description: Conceptual software arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
+ Description: Conceptual software architecture of the Linux kernel,
automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding.
-
+
* Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan.
- URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html
- Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse
+ URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/
+ Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse
engineering, system structure, dependencies.
- Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
+ Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel,
automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers
focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...).
-
+
* Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software
Architecture"
Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster.
- URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/linuxcase.html
+ URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/
Keywords: software architecture, architecture recovery,
redocumentation.
Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22,
1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same
author.
-
+
* Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System"
Author: Richard Gooch.
- URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/vfs.txt
+ URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
- dentries,
- dcache. Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File
- System. What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a
- file or mounting a file system and description of important data
+ dentries, dcache.
+ Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
+ What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
+ mounting a file system and description of important data
structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
-
+
* Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code"
Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
- URL: http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue44/2391.html
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
secondary-storage capability using software".
-
+
* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers"
Author: Alessandro Rubini.
- URL: http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue23/1219.html
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
allocating resources.
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
abstract: "This is the first of a series of four articles
co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
installment".
-
+
* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery"
Author: Alessandro Rubini.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
- autodetection,
- mayor number, minor number, file operations, open(), close().
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
+ autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
+ open(), close().
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
abstract: "This article, the second of four, introduces part of
the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls".
-
+
* Title: "The Devil's in the Details"
Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
blocking mode, interrupt handler.
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character
device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
ioctl-calls".
-
+
* Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
- URL: http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue26/interrupt.html
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about
writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
DMA".
-
+
* Title: "Device Drivers Concluded"
Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
five articles about character device drivers. In this final
section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
-
+
* Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
configuration, multicast.
simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
hardware) involves managing network packets in memory".
- * Title: "An Introduction to the Linux 1.3.x Networking Code"
- Author: Vipul Gupta.
- URL: http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/courses/cs628/linux-net.html
- Keywords: files, sk_buffs.
- Description: A short description of files under the net/
- directory. Each file has a one or two lines paragraph description.
- sk_buffs explained, too, with some beautiful pictures. A little
- bit outdated.
-
- * Title: "Linux ioctl() Primer"
- Author: Vipul Gupta.
- URL: http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/courses/cs628/ioctl.html
- Keywords: ioctl, socket.
- Description: Little description and examples on the use and
- implementation of the ioctl() system call. A little bit biased
- towards sockets.
-
* Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
Author: Michael K. Johnson.
- URL: http://www.redhat.com/~johnsonm/devices.html
+ URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html
Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character
vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to
user memory, memory allocation, timers.
of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
envisage".
-
+
* Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
Author: Claus Schroeter.
URL:
- ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps
- .gz
+ ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz
Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.
Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.
Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,
as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices
and perform busmastering.
-
+
* Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux"
Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.
URL:
- ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers
- .ps.gz
- Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accesing
+ ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz
+ Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing
ports in user space, kernel environment.
Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little
bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.
-
+
* Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended
Filesystem"
- Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
+ Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
-
- * Title: "The Second Extended Filesystem"
- Author: Matthew Wilcox.
- URL: http://pocket.fluff.org/~mrw/linux/ext2.txt
- Keywords: ext2, filesystem.
- Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes...
- Notes: Seems to be DOWN. Anyone knows another link for it?
-
+
* Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
- URL: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
+ URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/
Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
- bitmaps, invariants ...
-
+ bitmaps, invariants...
+
* Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem"
Author: Stephen C. Tweedie.
URL:
- ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz
+ ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz
Keywords: ext3, journaling.
Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling
capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different
problems faced and the alternatives chosen.
-
+
* Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2"
Author: Richard Gooch.
URL:
- http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html
+ http://www.linuxhq.com/guides/LKMPG/node28.html
Keywords: 2.2, changes.
Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.
-
- * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.3"
+
+ * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4"
Author: Richard Gooch.
- URL:
- http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.3.html
- Keywords: 2.3, changes.
+ Keywords: 2.4, changes.
Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
- from 2.2.x to 2.3.x.
+ from 2.2.x to 2.4.x.
* Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"
Author: Ori Pomerantz.
- URL: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lkmpg/mpg.html
+ URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
interrupt handlers .
Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
programming. Lots of examples.
- * Title: "Device File System (devfs) Overview"
- Author: Richard Gooch.
- URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.txt
- Keywords: filesystem, /dev, devfs, dynamic devices, major/minor
- allocation, device management.
- Description: Document describing Richard Gooch's controversial
- devfs, which allows for dynamic devices, only shows present
- devices in /dev, gets rid of major/minor numbers allocation
- problems, and allows for hundreds of identical devices (which some
- USB systems might demand soon).
-
* Title: "I/O Event Handling Under Linux"
Author: Richard Gooch.
- URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/io-events.html
Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
event queues.
Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
* Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO"
Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
- URL: http://www.samba.org/~netfilter/kernel-hacking-HOWTO.html
+ Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
+ (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules,
symbols, return conventions.
Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I
routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an
understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was
originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it
- applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different. ".
+ applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different".
- * Title: "ALSA 0.5.0 Developer documentation"
- Author: Stephan 'Jumpy' Bartels .
- URL: http://www.math.TU-Berlin.de/~sbartels/alsa/
+ * Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver"
+ Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
+ URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
- both at kernel and user-level sides. Work in progress. ALSA is
- supposed to be Linux's next generation sound architecture.
+ both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
+ sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
* Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers"
Author: Detlef Fliegl.
Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be
published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission
of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...
-
- * Title: "Tour Of the Linux Kernel Source"
- Author: Vijo Cherian.
- URL: http://www.geocities.com/vijoc/tolks/tolks.html
- Keywords: .
- Description: A classic of this page! Was lost for a while and is
- back again. Thanks Vijo! TOLKS: the name says it all. A tour of
- the sources, describing directories, files, variables, data
- structures... It covers general stuff, device drivers,
- filesystems, IPC and Networking Code.
-
+
* Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
- Author: John Levon.
- URL: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/glossary.html
+ Author: various
+ URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
* Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO"
Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
- URL:
- http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking-
- HOWTO.html
+ Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
+ (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race
condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs.
Description: The title says it all: document describing the
kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly
different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
General Public License.
-
+
+ * Title: "Global spinlock list and usage"
+ Author: Rick Lindsley.
+ URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
+ Keywords: spinlock.
+ Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
+ usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
+ list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
+ access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
+ is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
+
* Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New
Features "
Author: Alan Cox.
Keywords: ports, porting.
Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to
2.2 kernels.
-
+
* Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-06/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/238
Keywords: ports, porting.
Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels.
-
+
* Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power
Macintosh"
Author: Paul Mackerras.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-08/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "More on Mouse Drivers"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
Description: The title still says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-12/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-01/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
camera driver.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-02/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "PCI Management in Linux 2.2"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-03/gear_01.html
+ URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/452
Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering.
Description: The title says it all.
* Title: "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals"
- Author: Tigran Aivazian.
+ Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig.
URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html
- Keywords: Linux, kernel, VFS, SMP boot
- Description: A little book used for a short training course
- I gave on this subject at VERITAS. Covers building the kernel
- image, booting (including SMP), process management, VFS and more.
+ Keywords: Linux, kernel, booting, SMB boot, VFS, page cache.
+ Description: A little book used for a short training course.
+ Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup),
+ process management, VFS and more.
+
+ * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and
+ Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack."
+ Author: Glenn Herrin.
+ URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
+ Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
+ socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
+ modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
+ Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
+ explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
+ configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
+ the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
+ packets follow from the time they are received at the network
+ device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
+ code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
+ dropper example.
+
+ * Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux."
+ Author: Alex Ivchenko.
+ URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html
+ Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts,
+ memory allocation.
+ Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data
+ acquisition boards work on their GNU/Linux machines. Gives a basic
+ overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to
+ interrupt handling.
+ Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at
+ URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html
+
+ * Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide"
+ Author: David Hinds.
+ URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
+ Keywords: PCMCIA.
+ Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
+ drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
+ describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
+ Card Services.
+
+ * Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation"
+ Author: Neil Brown.
+ URL:
+ http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html
+ Keywords: knfsd, nfsd, NFS, RPC, lockd, mountd, statd.
+ Description: The title says it all.
+ Notes: Covers knfsd's version 1.4.7 (patch against 2.2.7 kernel).
+
+ * Title: "A Linux vm README"
+ Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
+ URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
+ Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
+ cache, swap cache, kswapd.
+ Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
+ relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
+
+ * Title: "(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The
+ definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system
+ administrators."
+ Author: pragmatic/THC.
+ URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
+ Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
+ Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
+ order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
+ files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
+ write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
+ avoid all those abuses.
+ Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
+ kernels.
BOOKS: (Not on-line)
* Title: "Linux Device Drivers"
Author: Alessandro Rubini.
- Publisher: O'Reilly &Associates.
+ Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
Date: 1998.
+ Pages: 439.
ISBN: 1-56592-292-1
+ * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
+ Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
+ Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
+ Date: 2001.
+ Pages: 586.
+ ISBN: 0-59600-008-1
+ Notes: Further information in
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/
+
+ * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition"
+ Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
+ Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
+ Date: 2005.
+ Pages: 636.
+ ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
+ Notes: Further information in
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
+ PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
+
* Title: "Linux Kernel Internals"
Author: Michael Beck.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
Pages: 520.
ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
Notes: French.
-
- * Title: "The Linux Kernel Book"
- Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
- Date: 1998.
- ISBN: 0-471-98141-9
- Notes: English translation.
-
- * Title: "Linux 2.0"
- Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
- Publisher: Gestión 2000.
- Date: 1997.
- Pages: 501.
- ISBN: 8-480-88208-5
- Notes: Spanish translation.
-
+
* Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers"
Author: Uresh Vahalia.
Publisher: Prentice Hall.
Date: 1996.
Pages: 600.
ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
-
- * Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge
- on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code"
- Author: Scott Maxwell.
- Publisher: Coriolis.
- Date: 1999.
- Pages: 592.
- ISBN: 1-57610-469-9
- Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel
- code.
-
- * Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary"
- Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford.
- Publisher: Coriolis.
- Date: 2000.
- Pages: ???.
- ISBN: 1-57610-470-2
- Notes: Line by line source code commentary book.
-
+
* Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4"
Author: Bill O. Gallmeister.
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
ISBN: I-56592-074-0
Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
POSIX. Good reference.
-
+
+ * Title: "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric
+ Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers"
+ Author: Curt Schimmel.
+ Publisher: Addison Wesley.
+ Date: June, 1994.
+ Pages: 432.
+ ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
+
MISCELLANEOUS:
-
- * Name: "Linux Source Driver"
- URL: http://lsd.linux.cz
- Keywords: Browsing source code.
- Description: "Linux Source Driver (LSD) is an application, which
- can make browsing source codes of Linux kernel easier than you can
- imagine. You can select between multiple versions of kernel (e.g.
- 0.01, 1.0.0, 2.0.33, 2.0.34pre13, 2.0.0, 2.1.101 etc.). With LSD
- you can search Linux kernel (fulltext, macros, types, functions
- and variables) and LSD can generate patches for you on the fly
- (files, directories or kernel)".
-
+
+ * Name: linux/Documentation
+ Author: Many.
+ URL: Just look inside your kernel sources.
+ Keywords: anything, DocBook.
+ Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources,
+ inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
+ (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
+ be more up to date than the web version.
+
+ * Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference"
+ Author: Thomas Graichen.
+ URL: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=96446640102205&w=4
+ Keywords: CVS, web, cvsweb, browsing source code.
+ Description: Web interface to a CVS server with the kernel
+ sources. "Here you can have a look at any file of the Linux kernel
+ sources of any version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated)
+ current version available. Also you can check the differences
+ between two versions of a file".
+
* Name: "Cross-Referencing Linux"
URL: http://lxr.linux.no/source/
Keywords: Browsing source code.
Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
where they are defined and where they are used.
-
+
* Name: "Linux Weekly News"
URL: http://lwn.net
Keywords: latest kernel news.
Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
-
+
* Name: "Kernel Traffic"
- URL: http://kt.zork.net
+ URL: http://kt.earth.li/kernel-traffic/index.html
Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.
Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant
discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list.
-
+
* Name: "CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX"
URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org
Keywords: changelist.
release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads
the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there,
too.
-
+
* Name: "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ"
- URL: Original site:
- http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
- URL: U.S. mirror site:
- http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~rreilova/linux/lkml-faq.html
+ URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ.
Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to
communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing
it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of
interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who
is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it.
-
+
* Name: "Linux Virtual File System"
Author: Peter J. Braam.
- URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs
+ URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
dcache.
-
- * Name: "Gary's Enciclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
+
+ * Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
Author: Gary (I suppose...).
- URL: http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
- Keywords: links, not found here?.
- Description: Gary's Enciclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding
+ URL: http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/index.html
+ Keywords: linux, community, everything!
+ Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding
of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux
users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major
categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents,
- sites... Look there if you could not find here whar you were
- looking for.
-
+ sites... This list is now hosted by developer.Berlios.de,
+ but seems not to have been updated since sometime in 1999.
+
* Name: "The home page of Linux-MM"
Author: The Linux-MM team.
- URL: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/
+ URL: http://linux-mm.org/
Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
mailing list.
- Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Mangement development.
+ Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
it if you are interested in memory management development!
-
+
* Name: "Kernel Newbies IRC Channel"
- URL: http://www.surriel.com/kernelnewbies.shtml
+ URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org
Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.openprojects.net. From the web
page: "#kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
people. [...] #kernelnewbies is on the Open Projects IRC Network,
try irc.openprojects.net or irc.<country>.openprojects.net as your
- server and then /join #kernelnewbies".
+ server and then /join #kernelnewbies". It also hosts articles,
+ documents, FAQs...
* Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines"
+ URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
- URL: http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/
- URL: http://www.geocrawler.com
+ URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel
+ URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
+ URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/
+ URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/
Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
you have a better/another one, please let me know.
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