Documentation/kernel-docs.txt

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   2        Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
   3
   4                       Understanding the Linux Kernel.
   5
   6                Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
   7
   8 /*
   9  * The latest version of this document may be found at:
  10  *   http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
  11  */
  12
  13    The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
  14    linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
  15    to information, appeared again and again.
  16
  17    Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
  18    get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
  19    enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
  20    philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
  21
  22    Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
  23    start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
  24    kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents
  25    available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference
  26    books are also mentioned.
  27
  28    PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
  29    send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
  30    corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed.
  31
  32    The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are
  33    cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the
  34    "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful
  35    when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the
  36    Document.
  37
  38    Enjoy!
  39
  40      ON-LINE DOCS:
  41
  42      * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition"
  43        Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
  44        URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
  45        Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
  46        programming API and kernel hacking in general.  Available under the
  47        Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
  48
  49      * Title: "The Linux Kernel"
  50        Author: David A. Rusling.
  51        URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
  52        Keywords: everything!, book.
  53        Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of
  54        the Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners.
  55        Lots of illustrations explaining data structures use and
  56        relationships in the purest Richard W. Stevens' style. Contents:
  57        "1.-Hardware Basics, 2.-Software Basics, 3.-Memory Management,
  58        4.-Processes, 5.-Interprocess Communication Mechanisms, 6.-PCI,
  59        7.-Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, 8.-Device Drivers, 9.-The
  60        File system, 10.-Networks, 11.-Kernel Mechanisms, 12.-Modules,
  61        13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The
  62        Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU
  63        General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.
  64
  65      * Title: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
  66        Author: Michael K.Johnson and others.
  67        URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
  68        Keywords: everything!
  69        Description: No more Postscript book-like version. Only HTML now.
  70        Many people have contributed. The interface is similar to web
  71        available mailing lists archives. You can find some articles and
  72        then some mails asking questions about them and/or complementing
  73        previous contributions. A little bit anarchic in this aspect, but
  74        with some valuable information in some cases.
  75
  76      * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
  77        Author: Ivan T. Bowman.
  78        URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html
  79        Keywords: conceptual software arquitecture, extracted design,
  80        reverse engineering, system structure.
  81        Description: Conceptual software arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
  82        automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
  83        figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding.
  84
  85      * Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
  86        Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan.
  87        URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html
  88        Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse
  89        engineering, system structure, dependencies.
  90        Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
  91        automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
  92        figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers
  93        focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...).
  94
  95      * Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software
  96        Architecture"
  97        Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster.
  98        URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/linuxcase.html
  99        Keywords: software architecture, architecture recovery,
 100        redocumentation.
 101        Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22,
 102        1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same
 103        author.
 104
 105      * Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System"
 106        Author: Richard Gooch.
 107        URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/vfs.txt
 108        Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
 109        dentries, dcache.
 110        Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
 111        What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
 112        mounting a file system and description of important data
 113        structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
 114
 115      * Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code"
 116        Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
 117        URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue44/2391.html
 118        Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
 119        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
 120        abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
 121        RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
 122        Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
 123        secondary-storage capability using software".
 124
 125      * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers"
 126        Author: Alessandro Rubini.
 127        URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue23/1219.html
 128        Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
 129        allocating resources.
 130        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
 131        abstract: "This is the first of a series of four articles
 132        co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
 133        a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
 134        loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
 135        topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
 136        installment".
 137
 138      * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery"
 139        Author: Alessandro Rubini.
 140        URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html
 141        Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
 142        autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
 143        open(), close().
 144        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
 145        abstract: "This article, the second of four, introduces part of
 146        the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
 147        device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
 148        cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls".
 149
 150      * Title: "The Devil's in the Details"
 151        Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
 152        URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html
 153        Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
 154        blocking mode, interrupt handler.
 155        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
 156        abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character
 157        device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
 158        ioctl-calls".
 159
 160      * Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
 161        Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
 162        URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue26/1222.html
 163        Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
 164        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
 165        abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about
 166        writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
 167        month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
 168        Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
 169        constraints make this an ``interesting'' part of device driver
 170        writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
 171        different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
 172        DMA".
 173
 174      * Title: "Device Drivers Concluded"
 175        Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
 176        URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html
 177        Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
 178        demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
 179        virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
 180        Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
 181        series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
 182        five articles about character device drivers. In this final
 183        section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
 184        an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
 185
 186      * Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
 187        Author: Alan Cox.
 188        URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html
 189        Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
 190        variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
 191        configuration, multicast.
 192        Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. Here is the abstract:
 193        "Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
 194        simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
 195        hardware) involves managing network packets in memory".
 196
 197      * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
 198        Author: Michael K. Johnson.
 199        URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html
 200        Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character
 201        vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to
 202        user memory, memory allocation, timers.
 203        Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing
 204        device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel
 205        Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic.
 206
 207      * Title: "The Venus kernel interface"
 208        Author: Peter J. Braam.
 209        URL:
 210        http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
 211        Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
 212        Description: "This document describes the communication between
 213        Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
 214        of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
 215        the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
 216        envisage".
 217
 218      * Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
 219        Author: Claus Schroeter.
 220        URL:
 221        ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps
 222        .gz
 223        Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.
 224        Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.
 225        Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,
 226        as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices
 227        and perform busmastering.
 228
 229      * Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux"
 230        Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.
 231        URL:
 232        ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers
 233        .ps.gz
 234        Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing
 235        ports in user space, kernel environment.
 236        Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little
 237        bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.
 238
 239      * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended
 240        Filesystem"
 241        Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
 242        URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
 243        Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
 244        VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
 245        ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
 246        Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
 247        Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
 248        design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
 249        e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
 250        Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
 251        First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
 252
 253      * Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
 254        Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
 255        URL: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
 256        Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
 257        Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
 258        bitmaps, invariants...
 259
 260      * Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem"
 261        Author: Stephen C. Tweedie.
 262        URL:
 263        ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz
 264        Keywords: ext3, journaling.
 265        Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling
 266        capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different
 267        problems faced and the alternatives chosen.
 268
 269      * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2"
 270        Author: Richard Gooch.
 271        URL:
 272        http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html
 273        Keywords: 2.2, changes.
 274        Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
 275        from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.
 276
 277      * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4"
 278        Author: Richard Gooch.
 279        URL:
 280        http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.4.html
 281        Keywords: 2.4, changes.
 282        Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
 283        from 2.2.x to 2.4.x.
 284
 285      * Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"
 286        Author: Ori Pomerantz.
 287        URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
 288        Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
 289        interrupt handlers .
 290        Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
 291        programming. Lots of examples.
 292
 293      * Title: "I/O Event Handling Under Linux"
 294        Author: Richard Gooch.
 295        URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/io-events.html
 296        Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
 297        event queues.
 298        Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
 299        how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
 300        open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
 301        application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
 302        (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
 303        want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
 304        inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
 305
 306      * Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO"
 307        Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
 308        Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking/
 309        (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
 310        Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules,
 311        symbols, return conventions.
 312        Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I
 313        never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified,
 314        but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I
 315        simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points
 316        into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's
 317        what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful
 318        routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an
 319        understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was
 320        originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it
 321        applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different".
 322
 323      * Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver"
 324        Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
 325        URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
 326        Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
 327        Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
 328        both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
 329        sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
 330
 331      * Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers"
 332        Author: Detlef Fliegl.
 333        URL: http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/
 334        Keywords: USB, universal serial bus.
 335        Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should
 336        give detailed information about the current state of the USB
 337        subsystem and its API for USB device drivers. The first section
 338        will deal with the basics of USB devices. You will learn about
 339        different types of devices and their properties. Going into detail
 340        you will see how USB devices communicate on the bus. The second
 341        section gives an overview of the Linux USB subsystem [2] and the
 342        device driver framework. Then the API and its data structures will
 343        be explained step by step. The last section of this document
 344        contains a reference of all API calls and their return codes".
 345        Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be
 346        published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission
 347        of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...
 348
 349      * Title: "Tour Of the Linux Kernel Source"
 350        Author: Vijo Cherian.
 351        URL: http://www.geocities.com/vijoc/tolks/tolks.html
 352        Keywords: .
 353        Description: A classic of this page! Was lost for a while and is
 354        back again. Thanks Vijo! TOLKS: the name says it all. A tour of
 355        the sources, describing directories, files, variables, data
 356        structures... It covers general stuff, device drivers,
 357        filesystems, IPC and Networking Code.
 358
 359      * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
 360        Author: various
 361        URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
 362        Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
 363        Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
 364        a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
 365        during discussion of the Linux kernel".
 366
 367      * Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO"
 368        Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
 369        Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking/
 370        (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
 371        Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race
 372        condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs.
 373        Description: The title says it all: document describing the
 374        locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP
 375        systems.
 376        Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3
 377        kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly
 378        different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
 379        General Public License.
 380
 381      * Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New
 382        Features "
 383        Author: Alan Cox.
 384        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/gear_01.html
 385        Keywords: ports, porting.
 386        Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to
 387        2.2 kernels.
 388
 389      * Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II"
 390        Author: Alan Cox.
 391        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-06/gear_01.html
 392        Keywords: ports, porting.
 393        Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels.
 394
 395      * Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power
 396        Macintosh"
 397        Author: Paul Mackerras.
 398        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/gear_01.html
 399        Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
 400        Description: The title says it all.
 401
 402      * Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers"
 403        Author: Alan Cox.
 404        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-08/gear_01.html
 405        Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
 406        Description: The title says it all.
 407
 408      * Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales"
 409        Author: Alan Cox.
 410        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/gear_01.html
 411        Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
 412        Description: The title says it all.
 413
 414      * Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers"
 415        Author: Alan Cox.
 416        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/gear_01.html
 417        Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
 418        Description: The title says it all.
 419
 420      * Title: "More on Mouse Drivers"
 421        Author: Alan Cox.
 422        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/gear_01.html
 423        Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
 424        Description: The title still says it all.
 425
 426      * Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver"
 427        Author: Alan Cox.
 428        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-12/gear_01.html
 429        Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
 430        Description: The title says it all.
 431
 432      * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device"
 433        Author: Alan Cox.
 434        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-01/gear_01.html
 435        Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
 436        camera driver.
 437        Description: The title says it all.
 438
 439      * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices"
 440        Author: Alan Cox.
 441        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-02/gear_01.html
 442        Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
 443        camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
 444        Description: The title says it all.
 445
 446      * Title: "PCI Management in Linux 2.2"
 447        Author: Alan Cox.
 448        URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-03/gear_01.html
 449        Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering.
 450        Description: The title says it all.
 451
 452      * Title: "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals"
 453        Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig.
 454        URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html
 455        Keywords: Linux, kernel, booting, SMB boot, VFS, page cache.
 456        Description: A little book used for a short training course.
 457        Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup),
 458        process management, VFS and more.
 459
 460      * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and
 461        Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack."
 462        Author: Glenn Herrin.
 463        URL:
 464        http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking.
 465        html
 466        Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
 467        socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
 468        modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
 469        Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
 470        explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
 471        configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
 472        the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
 473        packets follow from the time they are received at the network
 474        device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
 475        code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
 476        dropper example.
 477
 478      * Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux."
 479        Author: Alex Ivchenko.
 480        URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html
 481        Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts,
 482        memory allocation.
 483        Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data
 484        acquisition boards work on their GNU/Linux machines. Gives a basic
 485        overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to
 486        interrupt handling.
 487        Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at
 488        URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html
 489
 490      * Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide"
 491        Author: David Hinds.
 492        URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
 493        Keywords: PCMCIA.
 494        Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
 495        drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
 496        describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
 497        Card Services.
 498
 499      * Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation"
 500        Author: Neil Brown.
 501        URL:
 502        http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html
 503        Keywords: knfsd, nfsd, NFS, RPC, lockd, mountd, statd.
 504        Description: The title says it all.
 505        Notes: Covers knfsd's version 1.4.7 (patch against 2.2.7 kernel).
 506
 507      * Title: "A Linux vm README"
 508        Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
 509        URL: http://reality.sgi.com/kanoj_engr/vm229.html
 510        Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
 511        cache, swap cache, kswapd.
 512        Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
 513        relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
 514
 515      * Title: "(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The
 516        definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system
 517        administrators."
 518        Author: pragmatic/THC.
 519        URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
 520        Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
 521        Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
 522        order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
 523        files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
 524        write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
 525        avoid all those abuses.
 526        Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
 527        kernels.
 528
 529      BOOKS: (Not on-line)
 530
 531      * Title: "Linux Device Drivers"
 532        Author: Alessandro Rubini.
 533        Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
 534        Date: 1998.
 535        Pages: 439.
 536        ISBN: 1-56592-292-1
 537
 538      * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
 539        Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
 540        Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
 541        Date: 2001.
 542        Pages: 586.
 543        ISBN: 0-59600-008-1
 544        Notes: Further information in
 545        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/
 546
 547      * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3nd Edition"
 548        Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
 549        Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
 550        Date: 2005.
 551        Pages: 636.
 552        ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
 553        Notes: Further information in
 554        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
 555        PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
 556
 557      * Title: "Linux Kernel Internals"
 558        Author: Michael Beck.
 559        Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
 560        Date: 1997.
 561        ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
 562
 563      * Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
 564        Author: Maurice J. Bach.
 565        Publisher: Prentice Hall.
 566        Date: 1986.
 567        Pages: 471.
 568        ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
 569
 570      * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX
 571        Operating System"
 572        Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J.
 573        Karels, John S. Quarterman.
 574        Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
 575        Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990).
 576        ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
 577
 578      * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX
 579        Operating System"
 580        Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
 581        John S. Quarterman.
 582        Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
 583        Date: 1996.
 584        ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
 585
 586      * Title: "Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du
 587        noyau"
 588        Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
 589        Publisher: Eyrolles.
 590        Date: 1997.
 591        Pages: 520.
 592        ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
 593        Notes: French.
 594
 595      * Title: "The Linux Kernel Book"
 596        Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
 597        Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
 598        Date: 1998.
 599        ISBN: 0-471-98141-9
 600        Notes: English translation.
 601
 602      * Title: "Linux 2.0"
 603        Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
 604        Publisher: Gestión 2000.
 605        Date: 1997.
 606        Pages: 501.
 607        ISBN: 8-480-88208-5
 608        Notes: Spanish translation.
 609
 610      * Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers"
 611        Author: Uresh Vahalia.
 612        Publisher: Prentice Hall.
 613        Date: 1996.
 614        Pages: 600.
 615        ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
 616
 617      * Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge
 618        on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code"
 619        Author: Scott Maxwell.
 620        Publisher: Coriolis.
 621        Date: 1999.
 622        Pages: 592.
 623        ISBN: 1-57610-469-9
 624        Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel
 625        code.
 626
 627      * Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary"
 628        Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford.
 629        Publisher: Coriolis.
 630        Date: 2000.
 631        Pages: ???.
 632        ISBN: 1-57610-470-2
 633        Notes: Line by line source code commentary book.
 634
 635      * Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4"
 636        Author: Bill O. Gallmeister.
 637        Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
 638        Date: 1995.
 639        Pages: ???.
 640        ISBN: I-56592-074-0
 641        Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
 642        POSIX. Good reference.
 643
 644      * Title: "Understanding the Linux Kernel"
 645        Author: Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati.
 646        Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
 647        Date: 2000.
 648        Pages: 702.
 649        ISBN: 0-596-00002-2
 650        Notes: Further information in
 651        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/
 652
 653      MISCELLANEOUS:
 654
 655      * Name: linux/Documentation
 656        Author: Many.
 657        URL: Just look inside your kernel sources.
 658        Keywords: anything, DocBook.
 659        Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources,
 660        inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
 661        (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
 662        be more up to date than the web version.
 663
 664      * Name: "Linux Source Driver"
 665        URL: http://lsd.linux.cz
 666        Keywords: Browsing source code.
 667        Description: "Linux Source Driver (LSD) is an application, which
 668        can make browsing source codes of Linux kernel easier than you can
 669        imagine. You can select between multiple versions of kernel (e.g.
 670        0.01, 1.0.0, 2.0.33, 2.0.34pre13, 2.0.0, 2.1.101 etc.). With LSD
 671        you can search Linux kernel (fulltext, macros, types, functions
 672        and variables) and LSD can generate patches for you on the fly
 673        (files, directories or kernel)".
 674
 675      * Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference"
 676        Author: Thomas Graichen.
 677        URL: http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/lksr/
 678        Keywords: CVS, web, cvsweb, browsing source code.
 679        Description: Web interface to a CVS server with the kernel
 680        sources. "Here you can have a look at any file of the Linux kernel
 681        sources of any version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated)
 682        current version available. Also you can check the differences
 683        between two versions of a file".
 684
 685      * Name: "Cross-Referencing Linux"
 686        URL: http://lxr.linux.no/source/
 687        Keywords: Browsing source code.
 688        Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
 689        Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
 690        where they are defined and where they are used.
 691
 692      * Name: "Linux Weekly News"
 693        URL: http://lwn.net
 694        Keywords: latest kernel news.
 695        Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
 696        summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
 697        produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
 698
 699      * Name: "Kernel Traffic"
 700        URL: http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/
 701        Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.
 702        Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant
 703        discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list.
 704
 705      * Name: "CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX"
 706        URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org
 707        Keywords: changelist.
 708        Description: Site which provides the changelist for every kernel
 709        release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads
 710        the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there,
 711        too.
 712
 713      * Name: "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ"
 714        URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/
 715        Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ.
 716        Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to
 717        communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing
 718        list FAQ maintained by Frohwalt Egerer, who no longer maintains
 719        it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of
 720        interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who
 721        is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it.
 722
 723      * Name: "Linux Virtual File System"
 724        Author: Peter J. Braam.
 725        URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
 726        Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
 727        Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
 728        Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
 729        dcache.
 730
 731      * Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
 732        Author: Gary (I suppose...).
 733        URL: http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
 734        Keywords: links, not found here?.
 735        Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding
 736        of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux
 737        users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major
 738        categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents,
 739        sites... Look there if you could not find here what you were
 740        looking for.
 741
 742      * Name: "The home page of Linux-MM"
 743        Author: The Linux-MM team.
 744        URL: http://linux-mm.org/
 745        Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
 746        mailing list.
 747        Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
 748        Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
 749        it if you are interested in memory management development!
 750
 751      * Name: "Kernel Newbies IRC Channel"
 752        URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org
 753        Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
 754        Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.openprojects.net. From the web
 755        page: "#kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
 756        kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are
 757        learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or
 758        professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
 759        people. [...] #kernelnewbies is on the Open Projects IRC Network,
 760        try irc.openprojects.net or irc.<country>.openprojects.net as your
 761        server and then /join #kernelnewbies". It also hosts articles,
 762        documents, FAQs...
 763
 764      * Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines"
 765        URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
 766        URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
 767        URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel
 768        URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
 769        URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/
 770        URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/
 771        Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
 772        Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
 773        you have a better/another one, please let me know.
 774      _________________________________________________________________
 775
 776    Document last updated on Sat 2005-NOV-19