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Revision 12 as of 2014-06-04 13:26:38
KernelNewbies:
  • Documentation
  • Subsystems

Scheduler

  • A short and incomplete [:Documents/SchedulingInUNIXAndLinux:introduction] to scheduling in UNIX and Linux, and how tasks interact with the kernel.

Memory management

  • A Memory Management [:Documents/MemoryManagement:talk] by Rik van Riel

  • KernelMemoryAllocation: A brief overview of the different memory management mechanisms used in the kernel.

  • [:Documents/CopyUser:Copy from/to user-space implementation.] A description of the x86 copy_from/to_user() core code.

Device driver infrastructure

  • [:Documents/InitcallMechanism:Understanding The Linux Kernel Initcall Mechanism]: How module_init() and friends work.

  • Device ["Drivers"]

Networking

  • [:Documents/LinuxIPNetworking:Linux IP Networking] A description of Linux 2.2's IP stack, with diagrams.

  • [:Documents/Netfilter:Netfilter talk]

  • ["Networking"] everything network related

USB

  • [:Documents/USBIntro:USB documentation links]

Filesystems

  • [:Documents/SeqFileHowTo:A seq_file HOWTO] Describes the seq_file API, used for outputting information via /proc.

  • [:WhyReiser4IsNotIn:Why] Reiser4 is not in the Linux Kernel.

Power Management

  • PowerManagement

Hardware architecture

  • KernelPorts porting the kernel to other architectures

Read-Copy Update (RCU)

  • [:Documentation/Subsystems/ReadCopyUpdate:RCU] Links to RCU documentation

System Tap

  • SystemTap

  • [http://kernelnewbies.org/SystemTap Tap]

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