The Linux Kernel

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Contents

  • A guide to the Kernel Development Process
  • Submitting patches: the essential guide to getting your code into the kernel
  • Code of conduct
  • Kernel Maintainer Handbook
  • All development-process docs
  • Core API Documentation
  • Driver implementer’s API guide
  • Kernel subsystem documentation
  • Locking in the kernel
    • Lock types and their rules
    • Runtime locking correctness validator
    • Lock Statistics
    • Kernel Lock Torture Test Operation
    • Generic Mutex Subsystem
    • RT-mutex implementation design
    • RT-mutex subsystem with PI support
    • Sequence counters and sequential locks
    • Locking lessons
    • Wound/Wait Deadlock-Proof Mutex Design
    • Proper Locking Under a Preemptible Kernel: Keeping Kernel Code Preempt-Safe
    • Lightweight PI-futexes
    • Futex Requeue PI
    • Hardware Spinlock Framework
    • Percpu rw semaphores
    • A description of what robust futexes are
    • The robust futex ABI
  • Linux kernel licensing rules
  • How to write kernel documentation
  • Development tools for the kernel
  • Kernel Testing Guide
  • Kernel Hacking Guides
  • Linux Tracing Technologies
  • fault-injection
  • Kernel Livepatching
  • Rust
  • The Linux kernel user’s and administrator’s guide
  • The kernel build system
  • Reporting issues
  • User-space tools
  • The Linux kernel user-space API guide
  • The Linux kernel firmware guide
  • Open Firmware and Devicetree
  • CPU Architectures
  • Unsorted Documentation
  • ELF
  • Translations

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  • Lock types and their rules
  • Runtime locking correctness validator
  • Lock Statistics
  • Kernel Lock Torture Test Operation
  • Generic Mutex Subsystem
  • RT-mutex implementation design
  • RT-mutex subsystem with PI support
  • Sequence counters and sequential locks
  • Locking lessons
  • Wound/Wait Deadlock-Proof Mutex Design
  • Proper Locking Under a Preemptible Kernel: Keeping Kernel Code Preempt-Safe
  • Lightweight PI-futexes
  • Futex Requeue PI
  • Hardware Spinlock Framework
  • Percpu rw semaphores
  • A description of what robust futexes are
  • The robust futex ABI
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