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3 | Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel |
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6 | Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> |
7 | |
8 | The need for a document like this one became apparent in the |
9 | linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers |
10 | to information, appeared again and again. |
11 | |
12 | Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more |
13 | get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always |
14 | enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the |
15 | philosophy and design decisions behind this code. |
16 | |
17 | Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to |
18 | start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which |
19 | kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents |
20 | available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference |
21 | books are also mentioned. |
22 | |
23 | PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document, |
24 | send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any |
25 | corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed. |
26 | |
27 | The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are |
28 | cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the |
29 | "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful |
30 | when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the |
31 | Document. |
32 | |
33 | Enjoy! |
34 | |
35 | .. note:: |
36 | |
37 | The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its |
38 | published date, from the newest to the oldest. |
39 | |
40 | Docs at the Linux Kernel tree |
41 | ----------------------------- |
42 | |
43 | The DocBook books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}``. |
44 | The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``. |
45 | |
46 | * Name: **linux/Documentation** |
47 | |
48 | :Author: Many. |
49 | :Location: Documentation/ |
50 | :Keywords: text files, Sphinx, DocBook. |
51 | :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources, |
52 | inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document |
53 | (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might |
54 | be more up to date than the web version. |
55 | |
56 | * Title: **The Kernel Hacking HOWTO** |
57 | |
58 | :Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. |
59 | :Location: Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl |
60 | :Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules, |
61 | symbols, return conventions. |
62 | :Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I |
63 | never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified, |
64 | but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I |
65 | simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points |
66 | into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's |
67 | what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful |
68 | routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an |
69 | understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was |
70 | originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it |
71 | applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different". |
72 | |
73 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO** |
74 | |
75 | :Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. |
76 | :Location: Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl |
77 | :Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race |
78 | condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs. |
79 | :Description: The title says it all: document describing the |
80 | locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP |
81 | systems. |
82 | :Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3 |
83 | kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly |
84 | different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU |
85 | General Public License. |
86 | |
87 | On-line docs |
88 | ------------ |
89 | |
90 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary** |
91 | |
92 | :Author: various |
93 | :URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ |
94 | :Date: rolling version |
95 | :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel. |
96 | :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as |
97 | a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear |
98 | during discussion of the Linux kernel". |
99 | |
100 | * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel** |
101 | |
102 | :Author: Richard Sailer |
103 | :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper |
104 | :Date: 2016 |
105 | :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace |
106 | :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for |
107 | understanding linux kernel internals, |
108 | illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel. |
109 | :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework |
110 | as a tool to understand a running Linux system. |
111 | Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand |
112 | source code more determined and with context. |
113 | In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing |
114 | and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel. |
115 | Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual |
116 | exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.* |
117 | |
118 | * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches** |
119 | |
120 | :Author: Andi Kleen |
121 | :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf |
122 | :Date: 2008 |
123 | :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies |
124 | :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches |
125 | there are and how likley they get merged. |
126 | :Abstract: |
127 | [...]. This paper examines some common problems for |
128 | submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems. |
129 | |
130 | * Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System** |
131 | |
132 | :Author: Richard Gooch. |
133 | :URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt |
134 | :Date: 2007 |
135 | :Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files, |
136 | dentries, dcache. |
137 | :Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System. |
138 | What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or |
139 | mounting a file system and description of important data |
140 | structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries. |
141 | |
142 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition** |
143 | |
144 | :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman |
145 | :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ |
146 | :Date: 2005 |
147 | :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver |
148 | programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the |
149 | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. |
150 | :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`. |
151 | |
152 | * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver** |
153 | |
154 | :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> |
155 | :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html |
156 | :Date: 2005 |
157 | :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. |
158 | :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, |
159 | both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel |
160 | sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. |
161 | |
162 | * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide** |
163 | |
164 | :Author: David Hinds. |
165 | :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html |
166 | :Date: 2003 |
167 | :Keywords: PCMCIA. |
168 | :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device |
169 | drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also |
170 | describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with |
171 | Card Services. |
172 | |
173 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** |
174 | |
175 | :Author: Ori Pomerantz. |
176 | :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html |
177 | :Date: 2001 |
178 | :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, |
179 | interrupt handlers . |
180 | :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules |
181 | programming. Lots of examples. |
182 | |
183 | * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage** |
184 | |
185 | :Author: Rick Lindsley. |
186 | :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock |
187 | :Date: 2001 |
188 | :Keywords: spinlock. |
189 | :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and |
190 | usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive |
191 | list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions |
192 | access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it |
193 | is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... |
194 | |
195 | * Title: **A Linux vm README** |
196 | |
197 | :Author: Kanoj Sarcar. |
198 | :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html |
199 | :Date: 2001 |
200 | :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page |
201 | cache, swap cache, kswapd. |
202 | :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions |
203 | relating the Linux virtual memory implementation. |
204 | |
205 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device** |
206 | |
207 | :Author: Alan Cox. |
208 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406 |
209 | :Date: 2000 |
210 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, |
211 | camera driver. |
212 | :Description: The title says it all. |
213 | |
214 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices** |
215 | |
216 | :Author: Alan Cox. |
217 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429 |
218 | :Date: 2000 |
219 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, |
220 | camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. |
221 | :Description: The title says it all. |
222 | |
223 | * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.** |
224 | |
225 | :Author: Glenn Herrin. |
226 | :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin |
227 | :Date: 2000 |
228 | :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection, |
229 | socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, |
230 | modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags. |
231 | :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking, |
232 | explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space |
233 | configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of |
234 | the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps |
235 | packets follow from the time they are received at the network |
236 | device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel |
237 | code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet |
238 | dropper example. |
239 | |
240 | * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh** |
241 | |
242 | :Author: Paul Mackerras. |
243 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261 |
244 | :Date: 1999 |
245 | :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility. |
246 | :Description: The title says it all. |
247 | |
248 | * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers** |
249 | |
250 | :Author: Alan Cox. |
251 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284 |
252 | :Date: 1999 |
253 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver. |
254 | :Description: The title says it all. |
255 | |
256 | * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales** |
257 | |
258 | :Author: Alan Cox. |
259 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307 |
260 | :Date: 1999 |
261 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced. |
262 | :Description: The title says it all. |
263 | |
264 | * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers** |
265 | |
266 | :Author: Alan Cox. |
267 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330 |
268 | :Date: 1999 |
269 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. |
270 | :Description: The title says it all. |
271 | |
272 | * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers** |
273 | |
274 | :Author: Alan Cox. |
275 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356 |
276 | :Date: 1999 |
277 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O. |
278 | :Description: The title still says it all. |
279 | |
280 | * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver** |
281 | |
282 | :Author: Alan Cox. |
283 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381 |
284 | :Date: 1999 |
285 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. |
286 | :Description: The title says it all. |
287 | |
288 | * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux** |
289 | |
290 | :Author: Richard Gooch. |
291 | :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html |
292 | :Date: 1999 |
293 | :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness |
294 | event queues. |
295 | :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about |
296 | how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of |
297 | open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your |
298 | application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active |
299 | (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you |
300 | want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of |
301 | inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage". |
302 | |
303 | * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.** |
304 | |
305 | :Author: pragmatic/THC. |
306 | :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html |
307 | :Date: 1999 |
308 | :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table. |
309 | :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in |
310 | order to intercept and modify syscalls, make |
311 | files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys, |
312 | write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to |
313 | avoid all those abuses. |
314 | :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x |
315 | kernels. |
316 | |
317 | * Name: **Linux Virtual File System** |
318 | |
319 | :Author: Peter J. Braam. |
320 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ |
321 | :Date: 1998 |
322 | :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache. |
323 | :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the |
324 | Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the |
325 | dcache. |
326 | |
327 | * Title: **The Venus kernel interface** |
328 | |
329 | :Author: Peter J. Braam. |
330 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html |
331 | :Date: 1998 |
332 | :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager. |
333 | :Description: "This document describes the communication between |
334 | Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation |
335 | of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe |
336 | the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we |
337 | envisage". |
338 | |
339 | * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem** |
340 | |
341 | :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. |
342 | :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html |
343 | :Date: 1998 |
344 | :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, |
345 | VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, |
346 | ext2fs tools, e2fsck. |
347 | :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers. |
348 | Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features, |
349 | design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks, |
350 | e2fsck's passes description... A must read! |
351 | :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the |
352 | First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9. |
353 | |
354 | * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code** |
355 | |
356 | :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. |
357 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 |
358 | :Date: 1997 |
359 | :Keywords: RAID, MD driver. |
360 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
361 | :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, |
362 | RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the |
363 | Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, |
364 | secondary-storage capability using software*. |
365 | |
366 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide** |
367 | |
368 | :Author: Michael K. Johnson. |
369 | :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html |
370 | :Date: 1997 |
371 | :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs |
372 | block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, |
373 | memory allocation, timers. |
374 | :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the |
375 | concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal |
376 | structures of Linux. |
377 | |
378 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers** |
379 | |
380 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini. |
381 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 |
382 | :Date: 1996 |
383 | :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, |
384 | allocating resources. |
385 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
386 | :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles |
387 | co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present |
388 | a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel |
389 | loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the |
390 | topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's |
391 | installment*. |
392 | |
393 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery** |
394 | |
395 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini. |
396 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 |
397 | :Date: 1996 |
398 | :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, |
399 | autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, |
400 | open(), close(). |
401 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
402 | :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of |
403 | the actual code to create custom module implementing a character |
404 | device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and |
405 | cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*. |
406 | |
407 | * Title: **The Devil's in the Details** |
408 | |
409 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. |
410 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 |
411 | :Date: 1996 |
412 | :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non |
413 | blocking mode, interrupt handler. |
414 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
415 | :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character |
416 | device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using |
417 | ioctl-calls*. |
418 | |
419 | * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA** |
420 | |
421 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. |
422 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 |
423 | :Date: 1996 |
424 | :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. |
425 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
426 | :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about |
427 | writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This |
428 | month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling. |
429 | Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and |
430 | constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver |
431 | writing, and several different facilities have been provided for |
432 | different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of |
433 | DMA*. |
434 | |
435 | * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded** |
436 | |
437 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. |
438 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 |
439 | :Date: 1996 |
440 | :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, |
441 | demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, |
442 | virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI. |
443 | :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles |
444 | series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of |
445 | five articles about character device drivers. In this final |
446 | section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with |
447 | an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts". |
448 | |
449 | * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management** |
450 | |
451 | :Author: Alan Cox. |
452 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 |
453 | :Date: 1996 |
454 | :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer |
455 | variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, |
456 | configuration, multicast. |
457 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. |
458 | :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally |
459 | simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the |
460 | hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*. |
461 | |
462 | * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure** |
463 | |
464 | :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. |
465 | :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/ |
466 | :Date: 1994 |
467 | :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. |
468 | :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, |
469 | bitmaps, invariants... |
470 | |
471 | Published books |
472 | --------------- |
473 | |
474 | * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln** |
475 | |
476 | :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst |
477 | :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag |
478 | :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition) |
479 | :Pages: 688 |
480 | :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8 |
481 | :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is |
482 | much cheaper and still quite up-to-date. |
483 | |
484 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory** |
485 | |
486 | :Author: Rami Rosen |
487 | :Publisher: Apress |
488 | :Date: December 22, 2013 |
489 | :Pages: 648 |
490 | :ISBN: 978-1430261964 |
491 | |
492 | * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition** |
493 | |
494 | :Author: Christopher Hallinan |
495 | :Publisher: Pearson |
496 | :Date: November, 2010 |
497 | :Pages: 656 |
498 | :ISBN: 978-0137017836 |
499 | |
500 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition** |
501 | |
502 | :Author: Robert Love |
503 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley |
504 | :Date: July, 2010 |
505 | :Pages: 440 |
506 | :ISBN: 978-0672329463 |
507 | |
508 | * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers** |
509 | |
510 | :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran |
511 | :Published: Prentice Hall |
512 | :Date: April, 2008 |
513 | :Pages: 744 |
514 | :ISBN: 978-0132396554 |
515 | |
516 | .. _ldd3_published: |
517 | |
518 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition** |
519 | |
520 | :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman |
521 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates |
522 | :Date: 2005 |
523 | :Pages: 636 |
524 | :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 |
525 | :Notes: Further information in |
526 | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ |
527 | PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ |
528 | |
529 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals** |
530 | |
531 | :Author: Michael Beck |
532 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley |
533 | :Date: 1997 |
534 | :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition) |
535 | |
536 | * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau** |
537 | |
538 | :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel |
539 | :Publisher: Eyrolles |
540 | :Date: 1997 |
541 | :Pages: 520 |
542 | :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5 |
543 | :Notes: French |
544 | |
545 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System** |
546 | |
547 | :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, |
548 | John S. Quarterman |
549 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley |
550 | :Date: 1996 |
551 | :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4 |
552 | |
553 | * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers** |
554 | |
555 | :Author: Uresh Vahalia |
556 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall |
557 | :Date: 1996 |
558 | :Pages: 600 |
559 | :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 |
560 | |
561 | * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4** |
562 | |
563 | :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister |
564 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc |
565 | :Date: 1995 |
566 | :Pages: 552 |
567 | :ISBN: I-56592-074-0 |
568 | :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be |
569 | POSIX. Good reference. |
570 | |
571 | * Title: **UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers** |
572 | |
573 | :Author: Curt Schimmel |
574 | :Publisher: Addison Wesley |
575 | :Date: June, 1994 |
576 | :Pages: 432 |
577 | :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8 |
578 | |
579 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System** |
580 | |
581 | :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J |
582 | Karels, John S. Quarterman |
583 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley |
584 | :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990) |
585 | :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1 |
586 | |
587 | * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System** |
588 | |
589 | :Author: Maurice J. Bach |
590 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall |
591 | :Date: 1986 |
592 | :Pages: 471 |
593 | :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 |
594 | |
595 | Miscellaneous |
596 | ------------- |
597 | |
598 | * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux** |
599 | |
600 | :URL: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ |
601 | :Keywords: Browsing source code. |
602 | :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser. |
603 | Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see |
604 | where they are defined and where they are used. |
605 | |
606 | * Name: **Linux Weekly News** |
607 | |
608 | :URL: http://lwn.net |
609 | :Keywords: latest kernel news. |
610 | :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section |
611 | summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions |
612 | produced during the week. Published every Thursday. |
613 | |
614 | * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** |
615 | |
616 | :Author: The Linux-MM team. |
617 | :URL: http://linux-mm.org/ |
618 | :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, |
619 | mailing list. |
620 | :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. |
621 | Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss |
622 | it if you are interested in memory management development! |
623 | |
624 | * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website** |
625 | |
626 | :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org |
627 | :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts. |
628 | :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net. |
629 | #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie' |
630 | kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are |
631 | learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or |
632 | professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel |
633 | people. |
634 | #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network. |
635 | Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies. |
636 | The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs... |
637 | |
638 | * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines** |
639 | |
640 | :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html |
641 | :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html |
642 | :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel |
643 | :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search. |
644 | :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If |
645 | you have a better/another one, please let me know. |
646 | |
647 | ------- |
648 | |
649 | Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20 |
650 | |
651 | This document is based on: |
652 | http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html |
653 |