@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ All documents are cataloged with the following fields: the document's
.. note::
The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
- published date, from the newest to the oldest.
+ published date, from the newest to the oldest. The maintainer(s) should
+ periodically retire resources as they become obsolte or outdated; with
+ the exception of foundational books.
Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
-----------------------------
@@ -58,24 +60,6 @@ On-line docs
a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
during discussion of the Linux kernel".
- * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
-
- :Author: Richard Sailer
- :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
- :Date: 2016
- :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
- :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
- understanding linux kernel internals,
- illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
- :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
- as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
- Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
- source code more determined and with context.
- In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
- and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
- Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
- exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
-
* Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
:Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
@@ -88,380 +72,9 @@ On-line docs
programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being
actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg.
- * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
-
- :Author: Andi Kleen
- :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
- :Date: 2008
- :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
- :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
- there are and how likely they get merged.
- :Abstract:
- [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
- submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
-
- * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
-
- :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
- :URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
- :Date: 2005
- :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.
- :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`.
-
- * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
-
- :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
- :URL: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.html
- :Date: 2005
- :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
- :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
- both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
- sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
-
- * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
-
- :Author: David Hinds.
- :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
- :Date: 2003
- :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: **How NOT to write kernel drivers**
-
- :Author: Arjan van de Ven.
- :URL: https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-545-555.pdf
- :Date: 2002
- :Keywords: driver.
- :Description: Programming bugs and Do-nots in kernel driver development
- :Abstract: *Quit a few tutorials, articles and books give an introduction
- on how to write Linux kernel drivers. Unfortunately the things one
- should NOT do in Linux kernel code is either only a minor appendix
- or, more commonly, completely absent. This paper tries to briefly touch
- the areas in which the most common and serious bugs and do-nots are
- encountered.*
-
- * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
-
- :Author: Rick Lindsley.
- :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
- :Date: 2001
- :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: **A Linux vm README**
-
- :Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
- :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
- :Date: 2001
- :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: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
-
- :Author: Alan Cox.
- :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
- :Date: 2000
- :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/id/429
- :Date: 2000
- :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
- camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
- :Description: The title says it all.
-
- * 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
- :Date: 2000
- :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: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
-
- :Author: Paul Mackerras.
- :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
- :Date: 1999
- :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/id/284
- :Date: 1999
- :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/id/307
- :Date: 1999
- :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/id/330
- :Date: 1999
- :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
- :Description: The title says it all.
-
- * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
-
- :Author: Alan Cox.
- :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
- :Date: 1999
- :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/id/381
- :Date: 1999
- :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
- :Description: The title says it all.
-
- * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
-
- :Author: Richard Gooch.
- :URL: https://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
- :Date: 1999
- :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
- how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
- open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
- application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
- (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
- want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
- inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
-
- * 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
- :Date: 1999
- :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.
-
- * Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
-
- :Author: Peter J. Braam.
- :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
- :Date: 1998
- :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.
-
- * Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
-
- :Author: Peter J. Braam.
- :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
- :Date: 1998
- :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
- :Description: "This document describes the communication between
- Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
- of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
- the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
- envisage".
-
- * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
-
- :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
- :URL: https://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
- :Date: 1998
- :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
- VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
- ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
- :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
- Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
- design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
- 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 Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
-
- :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
- :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
- :Date: 1997
- :Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
- :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
- :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: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
-
- :Author: Michael K. Johnson.
- :URL: https://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
- :Date: 1997
- :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
- block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
- memory allocation, timers.
- :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
- concepts that are not intuitively obvious, and to document the internal
- structures of Linux.
-
- * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
-
- :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
- :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
- :Date: 1996
- :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
- allocating resources.
- :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
- :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://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
- :Date: 1996
- :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
- autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
- open(), close().
- :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
- :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://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
- :Date: 1996
- :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
- blocking mode, interrupt handler.
- :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
- :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: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
- :Date: 1996
- :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
- :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
- :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.
- Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
- constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
- 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: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
- :Date: 1996
- :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
- demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
- virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
- :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
- series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
- 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: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
- :Date: 1996
- :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
- variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
- configuration, multicast.
- :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
- :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
- simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
- hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
-
- * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
-
- :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
- :URL: https://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
- :Date: 1994
- :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
- :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
- bitmaps, invariants...
-
Published books
---------------
- * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln**
-
- :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst
- :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag
- :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition)
- :Pages: 688
- :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8
- :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is
- much cheaper and still quite up-to-date.
-
- * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory**
-
- :Author: Rami Rosen
- :Publisher: Apress
- :Date: December 22, 2013
- :Pages: 648
- :ISBN: 978-1430261964
-
- * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition**
-
- :Author: Christopher Hallinan
- :Publisher: Pearson
- :Date: November, 2010
- :Pages: 656
- :ISBN: 978-0137017836
-
* Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition**
:Author: Robert Love
@@ -469,14 +82,7 @@ Published books
:Date: July, 2010
:Pages: 440
:ISBN: 978-0672329463
-
- * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers**
-
- :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran
- :Published: Prentice Hall
- :Date: April, 2008
- :Pages: 744
- :ISBN: 978-0132396554
+ :Notes: Foundational book
.. _ldd3_published:
@@ -487,68 +93,10 @@ Published books
:Date: 2005
:Pages: 636
:ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
- :Notes: Further information in
+ :Notes: Foundational book. Further information in
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
- * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals**
-
- :Author: Michael Beck
- :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
- :Date: 1997
- :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
-
- * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau**
-
- :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel
- :Publisher: Eyrolles
- :Date: 1997
- :Pages: 520
- :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
- :Notes: French
-
- * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System**
-
- :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
- John S. Quarterman
- :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
- :Date: 1996
- :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
-
- * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers**
-
- :Author: Uresh Vahalia
- :Publisher: Prentice Hall
- :Date: 1996
- :Pages: 600
- :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
-
- * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4**
-
- :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
- :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
- :Date: 1995
- :Pages: 552
- :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
-
- * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System**
-
- :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J
- Karels, John S. Quarterman
- :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
- :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990)
- :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
-
* Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System**
:Author: Maurice J. Bach
@@ -556,6 +104,7 @@ Published books
:Date: 1986
:Pages: 471
:ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
+ :Notes: Foundational book
Miscellaneous
-------------
@@ -574,7 +123,7 @@ Miscellaneous
: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.
+ produced during the week.
* Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**