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You're reading from Linux Kernel Programming

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789953435

Pages 754 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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System Administration

Author (1):

Kaiwan N. Billimoria

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Basics

2. Kernel Workspace Setup

3. Building the 5.x Linux Kernel from Source - Part 1

4. Building the 5.x Linux Kernel from Source - Part 2

5. Writing Your First Kernel Module - LKMs Part 1

6. Writing Your First Kernel Module - LKMs Part 2

7. Section 2: Understanding and Working with the Kernel

8. Kernel Internals Essentials - Processes and Threads

9. Memory Management Internals - Essentials

10. Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors - Part 1

11. Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors - Part 2

12. The CPU Scheduler - Part 1

13. The CPU Scheduler - Part 2

14. Section 3: Delving Deeper

15. Kernel Synchronization - Part 1

16. Kernel Synchronization - Part 2

17. About Packt

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Technical requirements

The technical requirements – the software packages required – for this chapter are identical to what was shown in the Technical requirements section in Chapter 4, Writing Your First Kernel Module – LKMs Part 1; please refer to it. As always, you can find the source code for this chapter in this book's GitHub repository. Clone it with the following:

git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Linux-Kernel-Programming

The code displayed in the book is often just a relevant snippet. Follow along with the full source code from the repository. For this chapter (and those that follow), more on the technical requirements is found in the following section.

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Authors (1)

Kaiwan N. Billimoria

Kaiwan N. Billimoria taught himself BASIC programming on his dad's IBM PC back in 1983. He was programming in C and Assembly on DOS until he discovered the joys of Unix, and by around 1997, Linux! Kaiwan has worked on many aspects of the Linux system programming stack, including Bash scripting, system programming in C, kernel internals, device drivers, and embedded Linux work. He has actively worked on several commercial/FOSS projects. His contributions include drivers to the mainline Linux OS and many smaller projects hosted on GitHub. His Linux passion feeds well into his passion for teaching these topics to engineers, which he has done for well over two decades now. He's also the author of Hands-On System Programming with Linux, Linux Kernel Programming (and its Part 2 book) and Linux Kernel Debugging. It doesn't hurt that he is a recreational ultrarunner too.

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