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# Further Reading
*For the book "Linux Kernel Programming", Kaiwan N Billimoria, Packt (Mar 2021).*
*For the book "Linux Kernel Programming", 2nd Ed, Kaiwan N Billimoria, Packt (2023).*
*Book GitHub repo*: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Linux-Kernel-Programming
*Book GitHub repo*: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Linux-Kernel-Programming_2E
Here, we present, in a chapter-wise format, additional online as well as book references. We feel that these will help you, the reader, in digging deeper into topics, or gaining additional views/information, or both. We definitely recommend you browse through the provided references. Also, you will find that some resources are repeated across chapters; we leave it this way so that you can gain all required resources in one place (and chapter-wise).
(Obviously, these reference articles/blogs/etc are provided "as-is"; we cannot vouch for their correctness or validity).
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- The Practice of Programming, Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Hunt and Thomas
- The Joy of Linux, Hall and Proffitt
- Linux Kernel Debugging, Kaiwan N Billimoria
- Linux Kernel Programming, Part 2 - Writing character device drivers: Learn to work with user-kernel interfaces, handle peripheral I/O & hardware interrupts, Kaiwan N Billimoria
- Hands-On System Programming with Linux, Kaiwan N Billimoria
- Unix Network Programming, W. Richard Stevens
- Unix Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads, Robbins and Robbins
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"Is there a really practical hands-on tip, an almost guaranteed way to become a kernel hacker? Of course, keep reading this book! Ha ha, yes, besides, do partake in the [simply awesome Eudyptula Challenge](http://www.eudyptula-challenge.org/). Hang on, it's - very unfortuantely, and as of this writing - closed down.
Fear not, [here's a site with all the challenges](https://github.com/agelastic/eudyptula) posted (and the solutions, don't cheat!); do check it out and try the challenges."
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- [Ubuntu releases](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases)
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## Chapter 2, Building the Linux Kernel From Source - Further Reading
- **[Official Kernel Documentation](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/index.html)** : the modern Linux kernel documentation is very well written and presented here
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## Chapter 3, Building the Linux Kernel From Source - Further Reading
- Initramfs (initrd):
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- New Linux kernel: ['Linux 5.6 Is Looking Like It Will Be Spectacular With A Long List Of Features', Phoronix, 26Jan2020](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.6-Spectacular)
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## Chapter 4, Writing your first Kernel Module-LKMs Part 1 - Further Reading
- [Official Kernel Documentation : kernel parameters](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html)
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- Blog article: [A Standalone Linux Kernel Module, Levinzon, Medium, May 2020](https://medium.com/@eitan.levinzon/a-standalone-linux-kernel-module-df54283d4803)
- [BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux](https://www.busybox.net/)
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## Chapter 5, Writing your first Kernel Module-LKMs Part 2 - Further Reading
- Blog article: [WORKING ON THE CONSOLE WITH THE RASPBERRY PI, kaiwanTECH](https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/working-on-the-console-with-the-raspberry-pi/)
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## Chapter 6, Kernel Internals Essentials - Processes and Threads - Further Reading
- Book: [Hands-On System Programming with Linux", Kaiwan N Billimoria, Packt](https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/hands-system-programming-linux). Prerequisites to this chapter (essential reading, really):
- Ch 1 : Linux System Architecture
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- [Lockdown as a security module, Jonathan Corbet, LWN, June 2019](https://lwn.net/Articles/791863/)
- [Running an eBPF program may require lifting the kernel lockdown, Gehrcke, September 2019](https://gehrcke.de/2019/09/running-an-ebpf-program-may-require-liftingthe-kernel-lockdown/)
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## Chapter 7, Memory Management Internals Essentials - Further Reading
- Books on Linux kernel memory management internals:
- ['Professional Linux Kernel Architecture', Mauerer, Wrox Press](https://www.amazon.in/Professional-Linux-Kernel-Architecture-Programmer/dp/0470343435/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547525512&sr=8-1&keywords=Professional%20Linux%20Kernel%20Architecture%27)
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## Chapter 8, Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors, Part 1 - Further Reading
- Book: ['Hands-On System Programming with Linux', Kaiwan N Billimoria, Packt](https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/hands-system-programming-linux). Prerequisites to this chapter (essential reading, really):
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- ["GNUPLOT 4.2 - A Brief Manual and Tutorial", Duke University](https://people.duke.edu/~hpgavin/gnuplot.html)
- ['Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1', Neil Brown, LWN, June 2011](https://lwn.net/Articles/444910/)
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## Chapter 9, Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors, Part 2 - Further Reading
- [LWN kernel index on memory management](https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Memory_management)
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- [StackOverflow: How to mmap a Linux kernel buffer to userspace?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/10770582/779269)
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## Chapter 10, The CPU Scheduler, Part 1 - Further Reading
- Detailed PDF: ['A complete guide to Linux process scheduling', Nikita Ishkov, Feb 2015](https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/96864/GRADU-1428493916.pdf)
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- [Linux kernel preemption and the latency-throughput tradeoff, Dec 2019](https://www.codeblueprint.co.uk/2019/12/23/linuxpreemption-latency-throughput.html)
- An excellent detailed code-level article on how, specifically, the context switching switch_to() code path has evolved on the x86[_64] arch: [Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux, Maizure, September 2018](https://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/)
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## Chapter 11, The CPU Scheduler, Part 2 - Further Reading
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## Chapter 11, The CPU Scheduler, Part 2 - Further Reading
- Ftrace
- ['ftrace: trace your kernel functions!', Julia Evans, Mar 2017](https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/03/19/getting-started-with-ftrace/)
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- [On Amazon (Anniversary Edition)](https://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Anniversary-Software-Engineering-ebook/dp/B00B8USS14/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3R2CNHTX5LYIC&keywords=mythical+man+month&qid=1562226712&s=digital-text&sprefix=mythical+%2Cdigital-text%2C376&sr=1-1)
- [Quotes](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks)
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## Chapter 12, Kernel Synchronization, Part 1 - Further Reading
- An excellent read: ['What every systems programmer should know about concurrency', M Kline, May 2018](https://assets.bitbashing.io/papers/concurrency-primer.pdf)
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- ['Peeking Under the Hood', John Sloan, Chip Overclock blog, May 2012](https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2012/05/peeking-under-hood.html)
- ['spin_lock implementation in ARM linux', linuxforthenew blog, Apr 2013](http://linuxforthenew.blogspot.com/2013/04/spinlock-implementation-in-arm-linux.html)
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## Chapter 13, Kernel Synchronization, Part 2 - Further Reading
- Deeper details on the LKMM: [Explanation of the Linux-Kernel Memory Model](https://github.com/aparri/memory-model/ blob/master/Documentation/explanation. txt)