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KernelNewbies:
  • Documentation
  • Subsystems

Scheduler

  • A short and incomplete introduction to scheduling in UNIX and Linux, and how tasks interact with the kernel.

Memory management

  • A Memory Management talk by Rik van Riel

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

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

Device driver infrastructure

  • Understanding The Linux Kernel Initcall Mechanism: How module_init() and friends work.

  • Device Drivers

Networking

  • Linux IP Networking A description of Linux 2.2's IP stack, with diagrams.

  • Netfilter talk

  • Networking everything network related

USB

  • USB documentation links

Filesystems

  • A seq_file HOWTO Describes the seq_file API, used for outputting information via /proc.

  • Why Reiser4 is not in the Linux Kernel.

Power Management

  • PowerManagement

Hardware architecture

  • KernelPorts porting the kernel to other architectures

Read-Copy Update (RCU)

  • RCU Links to RCU documentation

SystemTap

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