OxAX. Linux Inside

N.p., n,d. — 583 p. Introduction Booting From bootloader to kernel First steps in the kernel setup code Video mode initialization and transition to protected mode Transition to 64-bit mode Kernel decompression Initialization First steps in the kernel Early interrupts handler Last preparations before the kernel entry point Kernel entry point Continue architecture-specific boot-time initializations Architecture-specific initializations, again... End of the architecture-specific initializations, almost... Scheduler initialization RCU initialization End of initialization Interrupts Introduction Start to dive into interrupts Interrupt handlers Initialization of non-early interrupt gates Implementation of some exception handlers Handling Non-Maskable interrupts Dive into external hardware interrupts Initialization of external hardware interrupts structures Softirq, Tasklets and Workqueues Last part System calls Linux Inside Introduction to system calls How the Linux kernel handles a system call vsyscall and vDSO How the Linux kernel runs a program Timers and time management Introduction Clocksource framework The tick broadcast framework and dyntick Introduction to timers Memory management Memblock Fixmaps and ioremap SMP Concepts Per-CPU variables Cpumasks Data Structures in the Linux Kernel Doubly linked list Radix tree Theory Paging Elf64 CPUID MSR Initial ram disk initrd Misc How the kernel is compiled Linkers Linux kernel development Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch Data types in the kernel Useful links Contributors