|  | .. _kernel_docs: | 
|  |  | 
|  | Index of Further Kernel Documentation | 
|  | ===================================== | 
|  |  | 
|  | Initial Author: Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche (<jmseyas@dit.upm.es>; | 
|  | email address is defunct now.) | 
|  |  | 
|  | The need for a document like this one became apparent in the | 
|  | linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers | 
|  | to information, appeared again and again. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more | 
|  | get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always | 
|  | enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the | 
|  | philosophy and design decisions behind this code. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to | 
|  | start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which | 
|  | kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. | 
|  |  | 
|  | PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document, | 
|  | include a reference to it here, following the kernel's patch submission | 
|  | process. Any corrections, ideas or comments are also welcome. | 
|  |  | 
|  | All documents are cataloged with the following fields: the document's | 
|  | "Title", the "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some | 
|  | "Keywords" helpful when searching for specific topics, and a brief | 
|  | "Description" of the Document. | 
|  |  | 
|  | .. note:: | 
|  |  | 
|  | The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its | 
|  | published date, from the newest to the oldest. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Docs at the Linux Kernel tree | 
|  | ----------------------------- | 
|  |  | 
|  | The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``. | 
|  |  | 
|  | * Name: **linux/Documentation** | 
|  |  | 
|  | :Author: Many. | 
|  | :Location: Documentation/ | 
|  | :Keywords: text files, Sphinx. | 
|  | :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. | 
|  |  | 
|  | On-line docs | 
|  | ------------ | 
|  |  | 
|  | * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary** | 
|  |  | 
|  | :Author: various | 
|  | :URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelGlossary | 
|  | :Date: rolling version | 
|  | :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 | 
|  | 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, | 
|  | Jim Huang. | 
|  | :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/ | 
|  | :Date: 2021 | 
|  | :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, | 
|  | interrupt handlers . | 
|  | :Description: A very nice GPL book on the topic of modules | 
|  | 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 | 
|  | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | 
|  | :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 | 
|  |  | 
|  | .. _ldd3_published: | 
|  |  | 
|  | * 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: 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 | 
|  | :Publisher: Prentice Hall | 
|  | :Date: 1986 | 
|  | :Pages: 471 | 
|  | :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 | 
|  |  | 
|  | Miscellaneous | 
|  | ------------- | 
|  |  | 
|  | * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux** | 
|  |  | 
|  | :URL: https://elixir.bootlin.com/ | 
|  | :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: https://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: **The home page of Linux-MM** | 
|  |  | 
|  | :Author: The Linux-MM team. | 
|  | :URL: https://linux-mm.org/ | 
|  | :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, | 
|  | mailing list. | 
|  | :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 and Website** | 
|  |  | 
|  | :URL: https://www.kernelnewbies.org | 
|  | :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts. | 
|  | :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net. | 
|  | #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie' | 
|  | kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are | 
|  | learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or | 
|  | professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel | 
|  | people. | 
|  | #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network. | 
|  | Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies. | 
|  | The kernelnewbies website 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://groups.google.com/group/mlist.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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|  | Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20 | 
|  |  | 
|  | This document is based on: | 
|  | https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html |