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Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: reorder based on timestamp 

Reorder the on-line documents based on their timestamp or
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Enjoy!
.. note::
The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
published date, from the newest to the oldest.
Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
-----------------------------
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On-line docs
------------
* Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
:Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
:URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
:Date: 2005
:Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
:note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`.
* Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System**
:Author: Richard Gooch.
:URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
:Date: 2007
:Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
dentries, dcache.
:Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
mounting a file system and description of important data
structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
* Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
:Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
:Date: 1997
:Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
secondary-storage capability using software*.
* Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
:Author: Alessandro Rubini.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
allocating resources.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
installment*.
* Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
:Author: Alessandro Rubini.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
open(), close().
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
* Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
* Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
:Author: Andi Kleen
:URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
:Date: 2008
:Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
:Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
there are and how likley they get merged.
:Abstract:
[...]. This paper examines some common problems for
submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
:Author: various
:URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
:Date: rolling version
:Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
:Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
during discussion of the Linux kernel".
* Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
:Author: Richard Sailer
:URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
:Date: 2016
......@@ -174,108 +115,60 @@ On-line docs
Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
* Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
:Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
blocking mode, interrupt handler.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
ioctl-calls*.
* Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
:Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
DMA*.
* Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
:Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
:Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
five articles about character device drivers. In this final
section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
* Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
* Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
configuration, multicast.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
:Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
:Author: Andi Kleen
:URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
:Date: 2008
:Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
:Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
there are and how likley they get merged.
:Abstract:
[...]. This paper examines some common problems for
submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
* Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
* Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System**
:Author: Michael K. Johnson.
:URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
:Date: 1997
:Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
memory allocation, timers.
:Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal
structures of Linux.
:Author: Richard Gooch.
:URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
:Date: 2007
:Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
dentries, dcache.
:Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
mounting a file system and description of important data
structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
* Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
* Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
:Author: Peter J. Braam.
:URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
:Date: 1998
:Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
:Description: "This document describes the communication between
Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
envisage".
:Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
:URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
:Date: 2005
:Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
:note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`.
* Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
* Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
:Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
:URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
:Date: 1998
:Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
:Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
:Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
:Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
:URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
:Date: 2005
:Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
:Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
* Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
* Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
:Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
:URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
:Date: 1994
:Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
:Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
bitmaps, invariants...
:Author: David Hinds.
:URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
:Date: 2003
:Keywords: PCMCIA.
:Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
Card Services.
* Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
......@@ -287,41 +180,6 @@ On-line docs
:Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
programming. Lots of examples.
* Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
:Author: Richard Gooch.
:URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
event queues.
:Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
(have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
* Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
:Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
:URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
:Date: 2005
:Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
:Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
* Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
:Author: various
:URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
:Date: rolling version
:Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
:Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
during discussion of the Linux kernel".
* Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
:Author: Rick Lindsley.
......@@ -334,6 +192,51 @@ On-line docs
access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
* Title: **A Linux vm README**
:Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
:URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
cache, swap cache, kswapd.
:Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
* Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
:Date: 2000
:Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
camera driver.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
:Date: 2000
:Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
:Author: Glenn Herrin.
:URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
:Date: 2000
:Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
:Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
packets follow from the time they are received at the network
device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
dropper example.
* Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
:Author: Paul Mackerras.
......@@ -382,61 +285,20 @@ On-line docs
:Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
:Date: 2000
:Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
camera driver.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
:Date: 2000
:Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
:Author: Glenn Herrin.
:URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
:Date: 2000
:Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
:Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
packets follow from the time they are received at the network
device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
dropper example.
* Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
:Author: David Hinds.
:URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
:Date: 2003
:Keywords: PCMCIA.
:Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
Card Services.
* Title: **A Linux vm README**
* Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
:Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
:URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
cache, swap cache, kswapd.
:Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
:Author: Richard Gooch.
:URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
event queues.
:Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
(have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
* Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
......@@ -462,7 +324,149 @@ On-line docs
Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
dcache.
.. Please keep the published books in reverse publication date
* Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
:Author: Peter J. Braam.
:URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
:Date: 1998
:Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
:Description: "This document describes the communication between
Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
envisage".
* Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
:Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
:URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
:Date: 1998
:Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
:Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
:Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
* Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
:Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
:Date: 1997
:Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
secondary-storage capability using software*.
* Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
:Author: Michael K. Johnson.
:URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
:Date: 1997
:Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
memory allocation, timers.
:Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal
structures of Linux.
* Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
:Author: Alessandro Rubini.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
allocating resources.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
installment*.
* Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
:Author: Alessandro Rubini.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
open(), close().
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
* Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
:Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
blocking mode, interrupt handler.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
ioctl-calls*.
* Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
:Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
DMA*.
* Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
:Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
:Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
five articles about character device drivers. In this final
section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
* Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
configuration, multicast.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
:Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
* Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
:Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
:URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
:Date: 1994
:Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
:Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
bitmaps, invariants...
Published books
---------------
......@@ -559,7 +563,7 @@ Published books
:Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
:Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
:Date: 1995
:Pages: ???
:Pages: 552
:ISBN: I-56592-074-0
:Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
POSIX. Good reference.
......@@ -642,7 +646,7 @@ Miscellaneous
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Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20
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