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diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst index 7a45a8e36ea7..306ad373a002 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ .. _kernel_docs: -Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel -============================================================================================= +Index of Further Kernel Documentation +===================================== - Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> +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 @@ -16,21 +17,16 @@ 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. All documents -available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference -books are also mentioned. +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, -send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any -corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed. +include a reference to it here, following the kernel's patch submission +process. Any corrections, ideas or comments are also welcome. -The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All 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. - -Enjoy! +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:: @@ -83,6 +79,18 @@ On-line docs 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 @@ -90,7 +98,7 @@ On-line docs :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 likley they get merged. + 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. @@ -98,7 +106,7 @@ On-line docs * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition** :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman - :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ + :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 @@ -108,7 +116,7 @@ On-line docs * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver** :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html + :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, @@ -126,15 +134,19 @@ On-line docs describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with Card Services. - * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** + * Title: **How NOT to write kernel drivers** - :Author: Ori Pomerantz. - :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html - :Date: 2001 - :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, - interrupt handlers . - :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules - programming. Lots of examples. + :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** @@ -244,7 +256,7 @@ On-line docs * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux** :Author: Richard Gooch. - :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html + :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. @@ -295,7 +307,7 @@ On-line docs * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem** :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. - :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html + :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, @@ -313,7 +325,7 @@ On-line docs :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 :Date: 1997 :Keywords: RAID, MD driver. - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its + :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, @@ -322,13 +334,13 @@ On-line docs * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide** :Author: Michael K. Johnson. - :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html + :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 intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal + concepts that are not intuitively obvious, and to document the internal structures of Linux. * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers** @@ -338,7 +350,7 @@ On-line docs :Date: 1996 :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, allocating resources. - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its + :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 @@ -354,7 +366,7 @@ On-line docs :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, open(), close(). - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its + :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 @@ -367,7 +379,7 @@ On-line docs :Date: 1996 :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non blocking mode, interrupt handler. - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its + :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*. @@ -375,10 +387,10 @@ On-line docs * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA** :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 + :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. Here is its + :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. @@ -391,7 +403,7 @@ On-line docs * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded** :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 + :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, @@ -405,7 +417,7 @@ On-line docs * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management** :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 + :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, @@ -418,7 +430,7 @@ On-line docs * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure** :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. - :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/ + :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, @@ -480,7 +492,7 @@ Published books :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 :Notes: Further information in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ - PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ + PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals** @@ -561,7 +573,7 @@ Miscellaneous * Name: **Linux Weekly News** - :URL: http://lwn.net + :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 @@ -570,7 +582,7 @@ Miscellaneous * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** :Author: The Linux-MM team. - :URL: http://linux-mm.org/ + :URL: https://linux-mm.org/ :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, mailing list. :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. @@ -579,7 +591,7 @@ Miscellaneous * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website** - :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org + :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' @@ -605,4 +617,4 @@ Miscellaneous Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20 This document is based on: - http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html + https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html |