Linux Kernel Workbook

• 1. About The Book
  • 1.1. Introduction
• 2. Setting Up
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Steps
  • 2.3. Why a Virtual Machine
  • 2.4. Install Packages
• 3. Kernel Compilation
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Linux Kernel
  • 3.3. Kernel Compilation
  • 3.4. BootLoader
  • 3.5. Files Of The New Kernel
  • 3.6. Module Loading and Unloading
  • 3.7. Automatic Loading of modules when required.
  • 3.8. Exercises
  • 3.9. References
• 4. Kernel Modules
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. What are Kernel Modules
  • 4.3. Kernel Module Advantages
  • 4.4. Tools for Kernel Modules
  • 4.5. New Functions
  • 4.6. Hello World Kernel Module
  • 4.7. Module Which Does Some Calculations
  • 4.8. Module with Parameters
  • 4.9. Module with Character Array and Arrays as parameters
  • 4.10. Calculator with parameters
  • 4.11. Conclusion
  • 4.12. References
• 5. Exporting Symbols
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Export Symbol
  • 5.3. Module Exporting Some Functions and Variables
  • 5.4. Removing the modules
  • 5.5. Other files
  • 5.6. See the exported symbols
  • 5.7. Tool modprobe
  • 5.8. Tool - depmod
  • 5.9. One module dependent on several modules
  • 5.10. String related functions available in kernel
  • 5.11. Exercises
• 6. Proc Interface
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. New Functions
  • 6.3. Proc entry to read and write data to it
• 7. Kernel Bug Reporting
  • 7.1. BUG(), BUG_ON(), dump_stack(), panic() example
  • 7.2. Makefile
  • 7.3. Running the code
• 8. Kernel Data Structures
  • 8.1. Using Kernel’s linked list for your data structure
  • 8.2. Examples
• 9. Kernel Assignments
• 10. Making Changes to Kernel
  • 10.1. Hands-On - Making changes to a small module
  • 10.2. Hands-On - Making changes to a code which effects the whole kernel
• 11. Device Drivers
  • 11.1. Device Drivers Types

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page