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The Linux® Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures
By Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez, Gordon Fischer, Steven Smolski
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Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date: September 21, 2005
ISBN: 0-13-118163-7
Pages: 648

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Prentice Hall: Open Source Software Development Series
		Foreword
		Acknowledgments
		About the Authors
		Preface
			Intended Audience
			Organization of Material
			Our Approach
			Conventions
		Chapter 1.  Overview
			Section 1.1.  History of UNIX
			Section 1.2.  Standards and Common Interfaces
			Section 1.3.  Free Software and Open Source
			Section 1.4.  A Quick Survey of Linux Distributions
			Section 1.5.  Kernel Release Information
			Section 1.6.  Linux on Power
			Section 1.7.  What Is an Operating System?
			Section 1.8.  Kernel Organization
			Section 1.9.  Overview of the Linux Kernel
			Section 1.10.  Portability and Architecture Dependence
			Summary
			Exercises
		Chapter 2.  Exploration Toolkit
			Section 2.1.  Common Kernel Datatypes
			Section 2.2.  Assembly
			Section 2.3.  Assembly Language Example
			Section 2.4.  Inline Assembly
			Section 2.5.  Quirky C Language Usage
			Section 2.6.  A Quick Tour of Kernel Exploration Tools
			Section 2.7.  Kernel Speak: Listening to Kernel Messages
			Section 2.8.  Miscellaneous Quirks
			Summary
			Project: Hellomod
			Exercises
		Chapter 3.  Processes: The Principal Model of Execution
			Section 3.1.  Introducing Our Program
			Section 3.2.  Process Descriptor
			Section 3.3.  Process Creation: fork(), vfork(), and clone() System Calls
			Section 3.4.  Process Lifespan
			Section 3.5.  Process Termination
			Section 3.6.  Keeping Track of Processes: Basic Scheduler Construction
			Section 3.7.  Wait Queues
			Section 3.8.  Asynchronous Execution Flow
			Summary
			Project: current System Variable
			Exercises
		Chapter 4.  Memory Management
			Section 4.1.  Pages
			Section 4.2.  Memory Zones
			Section 4.3.  Page Frames
			Section 4.4.  Slab Allocator
			Section 4.5.  Slab Allocator's Lifecycle
			Section 4.6.  Memory Request Path
			Section 4.7.  Linux Process Memory Structures
			Section 4.8.  Process Image Layout and Linear Address Space
			Section 4.9.  Page Tables
			Section 4.10.  Page Fault
			Summary
			Project: Process Memory Map
			Exercises
		Chapter 5.  Input/Output
			Section 5.1.  How Hardware Does It: Busses, Bridges, Ports, and Interfaces
			Section 5.2.  Devices
			Summary
			Project: Building a Parallel Port Driver
			Exercises
		Chapter 6.  Filesystems
			Section 6.1.  General Filesystem Concepts
			Section 6.2.  Linux Virtual Filesystem
			Section 6.3.  Structures Associated with VFS
			Section 6.4.  Page Cache
			Section 6.5.  VFS System Calls and the Filesystem Layer
			Summary
			Exercises
		Chapter 7.  Scheduling and Kernel Synchronization
			Section 7.1.  Linux Scheduler
			Section 7.2.  Preemption
			Section 7.3.  Spinlocks and Semaphores
			Section 7.4.  System Clock: Of Time and Timers
			Summary
			Exercises
		Chapter 8.  Booting the Kernel
			Section 8.1.  BIOS and Open Firmware
			Section 8.2.  Boot Loaders
			Section 8.3.  Architecture-Dependent Memory Initialization
			Section 8.4.  Initial RAM Disk
			Section 8.5.  The Beginning: start_kernel()
			Section 8.6.  The init Thread (or Process 1)
			Summary
			Exercises
		Chapter 9.  Building the Linux Kernel
			Section 9.1.  Toolchain
			Section 9.2.  Kernel Source Build
			Summary
			Exercises
		Chapter 10.  Adding Your Code to the Kernel
			Section 10.1.  Traversing the Source
			Section 10.2.  Writing the Code
			Section 10.3.  Building and Debugging
			Summary
			Exercises
		Bibliography
		Index