Feb 4, 2018 · Other aspects of the VM, such as the boot memory allocator and the virtual memory lesystem which are not of general kernel interest are also covered by this book. Increasingly, …

A much simpler solution would be to add compatibility code to the Linux kernel, either to provide compatible behavior or provide hooks that would make it easier for a library to provide it.

Abstract Kdump is a kexec based kernel crash dump-ing mechanism, which is being perceived as a reliable crash dumping solution for Linux R . This paper begins with brief description of what …

The Linux Device Model is an effort to con-solidate data and interfaces from the many dis-parate device and driver models in the Linux kernel today. It allows the kernel to do things never …

GNU/Linux Programmer’s Manual Maintainers: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> 2020 - present (5.09 - HEAD) Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> 2004 - 2021 (2.00 - …

Kernel modules can now define their struct_ops types and receives struct_ops objects of these types. selftests/bpf/bpf_testmod.c is a good example.

Abstract The Hardware Breakpoint (also known as watchpoint or debug) registers, hitherto was a frugally used resource in the Linux Kernel (ptrace and in-kernel debuggers being the users), …

Dec 27, 2024 · PDFs of this book are sporadically posted at https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.html and at http: …

This paper is targeted toward kernel developers inter-ested in the details of enabling PCI Express device drivers, and it provides insight into the scope of imple-menting the PCI Express AER …

Feb 25, 2009 · mac80211 overview Johannes Martin Berg 2009-02-25 mac80211 is a subsystem to the Linux kernel implements shared code for soft-MAC/half-MAC wireless devices contains …