1.. _kernel_docs:
2
3Index of Further Kernel Documentation
4=====================================
5
6Initial Author: Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche (<jmseyas@dit.upm.es>;
7email address is defunct now.)
8
9The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
10linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
11to information, appeared again and again.
12
13Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
14get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
15enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
16philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
17
18Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
19start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
20kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack.
21
22PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
23include a reference to it here, following the kernel's patch submission
24process. Any corrections, ideas or comments are also welcome.
25
26All documents are cataloged with the following fields: the document's
27"Title", the "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some
28"Keywords" helpful when searching for specific topics, and a brief
29"Description" of the Document.
30
31.. note::
32
33   The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
34   published date, from the newest to the oldest.
35
36Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
37-----------------------------
38
39The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``.
40
41    * Name: **linux/Documentation**
42
43      :Author: Many.
44      :Location: Documentation/
45      :Keywords: text files, Sphinx.
46      :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources,
47        inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
48        (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
49        be more up to date than the web version.
50
51On-line docs
52------------
53
54    * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
55
56      :Author: various
57      :URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelGlossary
58      :Date: rolling version
59      :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
60      :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
61        a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
62        during discussion of the Linux kernel".
63
64    * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
65
66      :Author: Richard Sailer
67      :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
68      :Date: 2016
69      :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
70      :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
71        understanding linux kernel internals,
72        illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
73      :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
74        as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
75        Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
76        source code more determined and with context.
77        In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
78        and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
79        Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
80        exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
81
82    * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
83
84      :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
85        Jim Huang.
86      :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
87      :Date: 2021
88      :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
89        interrupt handlers .
90      :Description: A very nice GPL book on the topic of modules
91        programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being
92        actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg.
93
94    * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
95
96      :Author: Andi Kleen
97      :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
98      :Date: 2008
99      :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
100      :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
101        there are and how likely they get merged.
102      :Abstract:
103        [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
104        submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
105
106    * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
107
108      :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
109      :URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
110      :Date: 2005
111      :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
112        programming API and kernel hacking in general.  Available under the
113        Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
114      :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere  <ldd3_published>`.
115
116    * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
117
118      :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
119      :URL: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.html
120      :Date: 2005
121      :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
122      :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
123        both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
124        sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
125
126    * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
127
128      :Author: David Hinds.
129      :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
130      :Date: 2003
131      :Keywords: PCMCIA.
132      :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
133        drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
134        describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
135        Card Services.
136
137    * Title: **How NOT to write kernel drivers**
138
139      :Author: Arjan van de Ven.
140      :URL: https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-545-555.pdf
141      :Date: 2002
142      :Keywords: driver.
143      :Description: Programming bugs and Do-nots in kernel driver development
144      :Abstract: *Quit a few tutorials, articles and books give an introduction
145        on how to write Linux kernel drivers. Unfortunately the things one
146        should NOT do in Linux kernel code is either only a minor appendix
147        or, more commonly, completely absent. This paper tries to briefly touch
148        the areas in which the most common and serious bugs and do-nots are
149        encountered.*
150
151    * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
152
153      :Author: Rick Lindsley.
154      :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
155      :Date: 2001
156      :Keywords: spinlock.
157      :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
158        usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
159        list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
160        access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
161        is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
162
163    * Title: **A Linux vm README**
164
165      :Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
166      :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
167      :Date: 2001
168      :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
169        cache, swap cache, kswapd.
170      :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
171        relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
172
173    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
174
175      :Author: Alan Cox.
176      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
177      :Date: 2000
178      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
179        camera driver.
180      :Description: The title says it all.
181
182    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
183
184      :Author: Alan Cox.
185      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
186      :Date: 2000
187      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
188        camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
189      :Description: The title says it all.
190
191    * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
192
193      :Author: Glenn Herrin.
194      :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
195      :Date: 2000
196      :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
197        socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
198        modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
199      :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
200        explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
201        configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
202        the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
203        packets follow from the time they are received at the network
204        device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
205        code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
206        dropper example.
207
208    * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
209
210      :Author: Paul Mackerras.
211      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
212      :Date: 1999
213      :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
214      :Description: The title says it all.
215
216    * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers**
217
218      :Author: Alan Cox.
219      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
220      :Date: 1999
221      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
222      :Description: The title says it all.
223
224    * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales**
225
226      :Author: Alan Cox.
227      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
228      :Date: 1999
229      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
230      :Description: The title says it all.
231
232    * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers**
233
234      :Author: Alan Cox.
235      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
236      :Date: 1999
237      :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
238      :Description: The title says it all.
239
240    * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
241
242      :Author: Alan Cox.
243      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
244      :Date: 1999
245      :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
246      :Description: The title still says it all.
247
248    * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver**
249
250      :Author: Alan Cox.
251      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
252      :Date: 1999
253      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
254      :Description: The title says it all.
255
256    * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
257
258      :Author: Richard Gooch.
259      :URL: https://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
260      :Date: 1999
261      :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
262        event queues.
263      :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
264        how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
265        open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
266        application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
267        (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
268        want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
269        inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
270
271    * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
272
273      :Author: pragmatic/THC.
274      :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
275      :Date: 1999
276      :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
277      :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
278        order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
279        files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
280        write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
281        avoid all those abuses.
282      :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
283        kernels.
284
285    * Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
286
287      :Author: Peter J. Braam.
288      :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
289      :Date: 1998
290      :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
291      :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
292        Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
293        dcache.
294
295    * Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
296
297      :Author: Peter J. Braam.
298      :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
299      :Date: 1998
300      :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
301      :Description: "This document describes the communication between
302        Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
303        of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
304        the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
305        envisage".
306
307    * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
308
309      :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
310      :URL: https://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
311      :Date: 1998
312      :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
313        VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
314        ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
315      :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
316        Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
317        design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
318        e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
319      :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
320        First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
321
322    * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
323
324      :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
325      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
326      :Date: 1997
327      :Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
328      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
329      :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
330        RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
331        Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
332        secondary-storage capability using software*.
333
334    * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
335
336      :Author: Michael K. Johnson.
337      :URL: https://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
338      :Date: 1997
339      :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
340        block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
341        memory allocation, timers.
342      :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
343        concepts that are not intuitively obvious, and to document the internal
344        structures of Linux.
345
346    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
347
348      :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
349      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
350      :Date: 1996
351      :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
352        allocating resources.
353      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
354      :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
355        co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
356        a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
357        loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
358        topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
359        installment*.
360
361    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
362
363      :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
364      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
365      :Date: 1996
366      :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
367        autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
368        open(), close().
369      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
370      :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
371        the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
372        device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
373        cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
374
375    * Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
376
377      :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
378      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
379      :Date: 1996
380      :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
381        blocking mode, interrupt handler.
382      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
383      :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
384        device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
385        ioctl-calls*.
386
387    * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
388
389      :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
390      :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
391      :Date: 1996
392      :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
393      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
394      :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
395        writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
396        month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
397        Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
398        constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
399        writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
400        different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
401        DMA*.
402
403    * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
404
405      :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
406      :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
407      :Date: 1996
408      :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
409        demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
410        virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
411      :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
412        series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
413        five articles about character device drivers. In this final
414        section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
415        an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
416
417    * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
418
419      :Author: Alan Cox.
420      :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
421      :Date: 1996
422      :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
423        variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
424        configuration, multicast.
425      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
426      :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
427        simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
428        hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
429
430    * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
431
432      :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
433      :URL: https://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
434      :Date: 1994
435      :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
436      :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
437        bitmaps, invariants...
438
439Published books
440---------------
441
442    * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln**
443
444      :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst
445      :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag
446      :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition)
447      :Pages: 688
448      :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8
449      :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is
450         much cheaper and still quite up-to-date.
451
452    * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory**
453
454      :Author: Rami Rosen
455      :Publisher: Apress
456      :Date: December 22, 2013
457      :Pages: 648
458      :ISBN: 978-1430261964
459
460    * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition**
461
462      :Author: Christopher Hallinan
463      :Publisher: Pearson
464      :Date: November, 2010
465      :Pages: 656
466      :ISBN: 978-0137017836
467
468    * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition**
469
470      :Author: Robert Love
471      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
472      :Date: July, 2010
473      :Pages: 440
474      :ISBN: 978-0672329463
475
476    * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers**
477
478      :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran
479      :Published: Prentice Hall
480      :Date: April, 2008
481      :Pages: 744
482      :ISBN: 978-0132396554
483
484.. _ldd3_published:
485
486    * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition**
487
488      :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
489      :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
490      :Date: 2005
491      :Pages: 636
492      :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
493      :Notes: Further information in
494        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
495        PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
496
497    * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals**
498
499      :Author: Michael Beck
500      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
501      :Date: 1997
502      :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
503
504    * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau**
505
506      :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel
507      :Publisher: Eyrolles
508      :Date: 1997
509      :Pages: 520
510      :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
511      :Notes: French
512
513    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System**
514
515      :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
516        John S. Quarterman
517      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
518      :Date: 1996
519      :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
520
521    * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers**
522
523      :Author: Uresh Vahalia
524      :Publisher: Prentice Hall
525      :Date: 1996
526      :Pages: 600
527      :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
528
529    * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4**
530
531      :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
532      :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
533      :Date: 1995
534      :Pages: 552
535      :ISBN: I-56592-074-0
536      :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
537        POSIX. Good reference.
538
539    * Title:  **UNIX  Systems  for  Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers**
540
541      :Author: Curt Schimmel
542      :Publisher: Addison Wesley
543      :Date: June, 1994
544      :Pages: 432
545      :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
546
547    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System**
548
549      :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J
550        Karels, John S. Quarterman
551      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
552      :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990)
553      :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
554
555    * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System**
556
557      :Author: Maurice J. Bach
558      :Publisher: Prentice Hall
559      :Date: 1986
560      :Pages: 471
561      :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
562
563Miscellaneous
564-------------
565
566    * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux**
567
568      :URL: https://elixir.bootlin.com/
569      :Keywords: Browsing source code.
570      :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
571        Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
572        where they are defined and where they are used.
573
574    * Name: **Linux Weekly News**
575
576      :URL: https://lwn.net
577      :Keywords: latest kernel news.
578      :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
579        summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
580        produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
581
582    * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
583
584      :Author: The Linux-MM team.
585      :URL: https://linux-mm.org/
586      :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
587        mailing list.
588      :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
589        Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
590        it if you are interested in memory management development!
591
592    * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website**
593
594      :URL: https://www.kernelnewbies.org
595      :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
596      :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net.
597        #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
598        kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are
599        learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or
600        professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
601        people.
602        #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network.
603        Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies.
604        The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs...
605
606    * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines**
607
608      :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
609      :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
610      :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
611      :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
612      :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
613        you have a better/another one, please let me know.
614
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617Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20
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619This document is based on:
620 https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
621