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

Reorder the on-line documents based on their timestamp or
copyright notes. More updated documents come first.

While here, add the number of pages for POSIX4 document.

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@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ Document.
Enjoy! 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 Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
----------------------------- -----------------------------
@ -82,15 +87,45 @@ The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``.
On-line docs On-line docs
------------ ------------
* Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition** * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
:Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman :Author: various
:URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ :URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
:Date: 2005 :Date: rolling version
:Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
:note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`. 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
:Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
:Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
understanding linux kernel internals,
illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
:Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
source code more determined and with context.
In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
* Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
: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: **Overview of the Virtual File System** * Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System**
@ -104,6 +139,218 @@ On-line docs
mounting a file system and description of important data mounting a file system and description of important data
structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries. structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
* 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: **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 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: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
:Author: Ori Pomerantz.
:URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
interrupt handlers .
:Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
programming. Lots of examples.
* Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
:Author: Rick Lindsley.
:URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: spinlock.
:Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
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.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
:Description: The title still says it all.
* Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
:Description: The title says it all.
* 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: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
:Author: pragmatic/THC.
:URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
:Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
avoid all those abuses.
:Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
kernels.
* Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
:Author: Peter J. Braam.
:URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
:Date: 1998
:Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
:Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
dcache.
* 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** * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
:Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
@ -116,6 +363,18 @@ On-line docs
Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
secondary-storage capability using software*. 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** * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
:Author: Alessandro Rubini. :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
@ -145,35 +404,6 @@ On-line docs
device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*. cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
* Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
: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: **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
:Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
:Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
understanding linux kernel internals,
illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
:Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
source code more determined and with context.
In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
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** * Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
:Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
@ -229,45 +459,6 @@ On-line docs
simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*. hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
* 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: **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: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure** * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
:Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
@ -277,193 +468,6 @@ On-line docs
:Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
bitmaps, invariants... bitmaps, invariants...
* Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
:Author: Ori Pomerantz.
:URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
interrupt handlers .
: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.
:URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: spinlock.
:Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
* Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
:Author: Paul Mackerras.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
:Description: The title says it all.
* Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
:Description: The title still says it all.
* Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver**
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
:Date: 1999
: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**
: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: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
:Author: pragmatic/THC.
:URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
:Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
avoid all those abuses.
:Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
kernels.
* Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
:Author: Peter J. Braam.
:URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
:Date: 1998
:Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
:Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
dcache.
.. Please keep the published books in reverse publication date
Published books Published books
--------------- ---------------
@ -559,7 +563,7 @@ Published books
:Author: Bill O. Gallmeister :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
:Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
:Date: 1995 :Date: 1995
:Pages: ??? :Pages: 552
:ISBN: I-56592-074-0 :ISBN: I-56592-074-0
:Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
POSIX. Good reference. POSIX. Good reference.
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Document last updated on Mon 2016-Sep-19 Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20
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