1.. _kernel_docs:
2
3Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel
4=============================================================================================
5
6          Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
7
8The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
9linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
10to information, appeared again and again.
11
12Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
13get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
14enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
15philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
16
17Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
18start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
19kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents
20available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference
21books are also mentioned.
22
23PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
24send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
25corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed.
26
27The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are
28cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the
29"Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful
30when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the
31Document.
32
33Enjoy!
34
35.. note::
36
37   The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
38   published date, from the newest to the oldest.
39
40Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
41-----------------------------
42
43The DocBook books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}``.
44The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``.
45
46    * Name: **linux/Documentation**
47
48      :Author: Many.
49      :Location: Documentation/
50      :Keywords: text files, Sphinx, DocBook.
51      :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources,
52        inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
53        (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
54        be more up to date than the web version.
55
56    * Title: **The Kernel Hacking HOWTO**
57
58      :Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
59      :Location: Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
60      :Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules,
61        symbols, return conventions.
62      :Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I
63        never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified,
64        but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I
65        simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points
66        into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's
67        what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful
68        routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an
69        understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was
70        originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it
71        applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different".
72
73    * Title: **Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO**
74
75      :Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
76      :Location: Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
77      :Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race
78        condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs.
79      :Description: The title says it all: document describing the
80        locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP
81        systems.
82      :Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3
83        kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly
84        different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
85        General Public License.
86
87On-line docs
88------------
89
90    * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
91
92      :Author: various
93      :URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
94      :Date: rolling version
95      :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
96      :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
97        a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
98        during discussion of the Linux kernel".
99
100    * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
101
102      :Author: Richard Sailer
103      :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
104      :Date: 2016
105      :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
106      :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
107        understanding linux kernel internals,
108        illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
109      :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
110        as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
111        Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
112        source code more determined and with context.
113        In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
114        and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
115        Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
116        exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
117
118    * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
119
120      :Author: Andi Kleen
121      :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
122      :Date: 2008
123      :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
124      :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
125        there are and how likley they get merged.
126      :Abstract:
127        [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
128        submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
129
130    * Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System**
131
132      :Author: Richard Gooch.
133      :URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
134      :Date: 2007
135      :Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
136        dentries, dcache.
137      :Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
138        What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
139        mounting a file system and description of important data
140        structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
141
142    * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
143
144      :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
145      :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
146      :Date: 2005
147      :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
148        programming API and kernel hacking in general.  Available under the
149        Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
150      :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere  <ldd3_published>`.
151
152    * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
153
154      :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
155      :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
156      :Date: 2005
157      :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
158      :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
159        both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
160        sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
161
162    * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
163
164      :Author: David Hinds.
165      :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
166      :Date: 2003
167      :Keywords: PCMCIA.
168      :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
169        drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
170        describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
171        Card Services.
172
173    * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
174
175      :Author: Ori Pomerantz.
176      :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
177      :Date: 2001
178      :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
179        interrupt handlers .
180      :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
181        programming. Lots of examples.
182
183    * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
184
185      :Author: Rick Lindsley.
186      :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
187      :Date: 2001
188      :Keywords: spinlock.
189      :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
190        usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
191        list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
192        access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
193        is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
194
195    * Title: **A Linux vm README**
196
197      :Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
198      :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
199      :Date: 2001
200      :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
201        cache, swap cache, kswapd.
202      :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
203        relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
204
205    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
206
207      :Author: Alan Cox.
208      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
209      :Date: 2000
210      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
211        camera driver.
212      :Description: The title says it all.
213
214    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
215
216      :Author: Alan Cox.
217      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
218      :Date: 2000
219      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
220        camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
221      :Description: The title says it all.
222
223    * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
224
225      :Author: Glenn Herrin.
226      :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
227      :Date: 2000
228      :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
229        socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
230        modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
231      :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
232        explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
233        configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
234        the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
235        packets follow from the time they are received at the network
236        device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
237        code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
238        dropper example.
239
240    * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
241
242      :Author: Paul Mackerras.
243      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
244      :Date: 1999
245      :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
246      :Description: The title says it all.
247
248    * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers**
249
250      :Author: Alan Cox.
251      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
252      :Date: 1999
253      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
254      :Description: The title says it all.
255
256    * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales**
257
258      :Author: Alan Cox.
259      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
260      :Date: 1999
261      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
262      :Description: The title says it all.
263
264    * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers**
265
266      :Author: Alan Cox.
267      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
268      :Date: 1999
269      :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
270      :Description: The title says it all.
271
272    * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
273
274      :Author: Alan Cox.
275      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
276      :Date: 1999
277      :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
278      :Description: The title still says it all.
279
280    * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver**
281
282      :Author: Alan Cox.
283      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
284      :Date: 1999
285      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
286      :Description: The title says it all.
287
288    * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
289
290      :Author: Richard Gooch.
291      :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
292      :Date: 1999
293      :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
294        event queues.
295      :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
296        how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
297        open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
298        application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
299        (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
300        want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
301        inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
302
303    * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
304
305      :Author: pragmatic/THC.
306      :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
307      :Date: 1999
308      :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
309      :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
310        order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
311        files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
312        write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
313        avoid all those abuses.
314      :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
315        kernels.
316
317    * Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
318
319      :Author: Peter J. Braam.
320      :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
321      :Date: 1998
322      :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
323      :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
324        Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
325        dcache.
326
327    * Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
328
329      :Author: Peter J. Braam.
330      :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
331      :Date: 1998
332      :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
333      :Description: "This document describes the communication between
334        Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
335        of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
336        the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
337        envisage".
338
339    * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
340
341      :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
342      :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
343      :Date: 1998
344      :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
345        VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
346        ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
347      :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
348        Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
349        design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
350        e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
351      :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
352        First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
353
354    * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
355
356      :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
357      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
358      :Date: 1997
359      :Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
360      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
361      :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
362        RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
363        Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
364        secondary-storage capability using software*.
365
366    * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
367
368      :Author: Michael K. Johnson.
369      :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
370      :Date: 1997
371      :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
372        block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
373        memory allocation, timers.
374      :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
375        concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal
376        structures of Linux.
377
378    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
379
380      :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
381      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
382      :Date: 1996
383      :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
384        allocating resources.
385      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
386      :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
387        co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
388        a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
389        loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
390        topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
391        installment*.
392
393    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
394
395      :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
396      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
397      :Date: 1996
398      :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
399        autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
400        open(), close().
401      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
402      :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
403        the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
404        device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
405        cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
406
407    * Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
408
409      :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
410      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
411      :Date: 1996
412      :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
413        blocking mode, interrupt handler.
414      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
415      :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
416        device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
417        ioctl-calls*.
418
419    * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
420
421      :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
422      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
423      :Date: 1996
424      :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
425      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
426      :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
427        writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
428        month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
429        Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
430        constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
431        writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
432        different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
433        DMA*.
434
435    * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
436
437      :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
438      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
439      :Date: 1996
440      :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
441        demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
442        virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
443      :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
444        series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
445        five articles about character device drivers. In this final
446        section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
447        an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
448
449    * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
450
451      :Author: Alan Cox.
452      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
453      :Date: 1996
454      :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
455        variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
456        configuration, multicast.
457      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
458      :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
459        simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
460        hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
461
462    * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
463
464      :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
465      :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
466      :Date: 1994
467      :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
468      :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
469        bitmaps, invariants...
470
471Published books
472---------------
473
474    * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln**
475
476      :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst
477      :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag
478      :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition)
479      :Pages: 688
480      :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8
481      :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is
482         much cheaper and still quite up-to-date.
483
484    * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory**
485
486      :Author: Rami Rosen
487      :Publisher: Apress
488      :Date: December 22, 2013
489      :Pages: 648
490      :ISBN: 978-1430261964
491
492    * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition**
493
494      :Author: Christopher Hallinan
495      :Publisher: Pearson
496      :Date: November, 2010
497      :Pages: 656
498      :ISBN: 978-0137017836
499
500    * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition**
501
502      :Author: Robert Love
503      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
504      :Date: July, 2010
505      :Pages: 440
506      :ISBN: 978-0672329463
507
508    * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers**
509
510      :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran
511      :Published: Prentice Hall
512      :Date: April, 2008
513      :Pages: 744
514      :ISBN: 978-0132396554
515
516.. _ldd3_published:
517
518    * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition**
519
520      :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
521      :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
522      :Date: 2005
523      :Pages: 636
524      :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
525      :Notes: Further information in
526        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
527        PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
528
529    * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals**
530
531      :Author: Michael Beck
532      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
533      :Date: 1997
534      :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
535
536    * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau**
537
538      :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel
539      :Publisher: Eyrolles
540      :Date: 1997
541      :Pages: 520
542      :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
543      :Notes: French
544
545    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System**
546
547      :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
548        John S. Quarterman
549      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
550      :Date: 1996
551      :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
552
553    * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers**
554
555      :Author: Uresh Vahalia
556      :Publisher: Prentice Hall
557      :Date: 1996
558      :Pages: 600
559      :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
560
561    * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4**
562
563      :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
564      :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
565      :Date: 1995
566      :Pages: 552
567      :ISBN: I-56592-074-0
568      :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
569        POSIX. Good reference.
570
571    * Title:  **UNIX  Systems  for  Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers**
572
573      :Author: Curt Schimmel
574      :Publisher: Addison Wesley
575      :Date: June, 1994
576      :Pages: 432
577      :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
578
579    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System**
580
581      :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J
582        Karels, John S. Quarterman
583      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
584      :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990)
585      :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
586
587    * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System**
588
589      :Author: Maurice J. Bach
590      :Publisher: Prentice Hall
591      :Date: 1986
592      :Pages: 471
593      :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
594
595Miscellaneous
596-------------
597
598    * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux**
599
600      :URL: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/
601      :Keywords: Browsing source code.
602      :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
603        Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
604        where they are defined and where they are used.
605
606    * Name: **Linux Weekly News**
607
608      :URL: http://lwn.net
609      :Keywords: latest kernel news.
610      :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
611        summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
612        produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
613
614    * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
615
616      :Author: The Linux-MM team.
617      :URL: http://linux-mm.org/
618      :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
619        mailing list.
620      :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
621        Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
622        it if you are interested in memory management development!
623
624    * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website**
625
626      :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org
627      :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
628      :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net.
629        #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
630        kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are
631        learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or
632        professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
633        people.
634        #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network.
635        Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies.
636        The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs...
637
638    * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines**
639
640      :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
641      :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
642      :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
643      :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
644      :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
645        you have a better/another one, please let me know.
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649Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20
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651This document is based on:
652 http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
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