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Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization

You're reading from  Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079518
Pages 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Kaiwan N. Billimoria Kaiwan N. Billimoria
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: Character Device Driver Basics
2. Writing a Simple misc Character Device Driver 3. User-Kernel Communication Pathways 4. Working with Hardware I/O Memory 5. Handling Hardware Interrupts 6. Working with Kernel Timers, Threads, and Workqueues 7. Section 2: Delving Deeper
8. Kernel Synchronization - Part 1 9. Kernel Synchronization - Part 2 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. sysfs_on_misc: sysfs assignment #1: Extend one of the misc device drivers we wrote in Chapter 1, Writing a Simple misc Character Device Driver; set up two sysfs files and their read/write callbacks; test them from user space.
  1. sysfs_addrxlate: sysfs assignment #2 (a bit more advanced): Address translation: Exploiting the knowledge gained from this chapter and from the Linux Kernel Programming book, Chapter 7, Memory Management Internals - Essentials, the Direct-mapped RAM and address translation section, write a simple platform driver that provides two sysfs interface files called addrxlate_kva2pa and addrxlate_pa2kva. Writing a kva into the sysfs file, addrxlate_kva2pa, should have the driver read and translate the kva into its corresponding physical address (pa); then, reading from the same file should cause the pa to be displayed. Do the same with the addrxlate_pa2kva sysfs file.
  2. dbgfs_disp_pgoff: debugfs assignment #1: Write...
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