• KernelTricksAndTips

Tricks and Tips for Linux Development

• KernelFileIO How to read/write files from within the kernel

• PartialStaticLinkage How to link a specific library staticly, and everything else dynamicly

• UnalignedAccesses How to track down and fix unaligned accesses.

• ExtendingTheLinuxPageTable, why would you want to?

• KernelModules How to build modules outside the kernel tree

• StandardIo --- An amusing interchange with Al Viro

• SparseAnnotations --- information from Linus on new sparse functionality in 2.6.9+

• DriverIOAccess --- Information from Linus on the new iomap() function

• BigKernelLock

• PTEDecoder --- show values of a PTE

• UnimplementedAddressSpaceBits --- a note on IA64 virtual address layout

• page_mask --- how the page_mask works

• DirtyAndAccessedBits --- dirty and accessed bits in a PTE

• kdb --- Information on the KDB kernel debugger

• RGN%MAP%LIMIT --- notes on RGN_MAP_LIMIT

• DebuggingHungMachines --- tips on debugging if your machine is non-responsive

• MiscKernelDebuggingTips --- grabbag of tips

• KernelNobodyGuideToGit --- attempt to document how fringe kernel developers can use git distributed SCM

• Kprobes -- Notes on Kprobes for the kernel

• QuotableQuotes -- Quotable Quotes from technical lists

General Info on the Linux Kernel

• SchedulerInteractivity (by Con Kolivas)

• Asynchronous I/O

• KernelAddressSpaces --- How the IA64 memory map works

• SlashProc --- tunables and stats

• Scheduler documentation for 2.6.8.1

Pointers to Kernel Documentation

• /proc seq_file interface

• More seq_file documentation

• Driver Porting to 2.6 kernels

• Rusty's Unreliable guide to Kernel Locking

• VM Mel Gorman's book on the Linux VM system

(Also available updated in book form from http://www.phptr.com/title/0131453483 )