Linux Kernel Device Drivers Programming
- Monolithic Kernels
- Micro Kernels
- The User space & Kernel space
- Tool Chains, Libraries, The Makefile
- The HelloWorld Module
- Module Stacking
- Module Parameters
- System Calls
- Common Filesystem
- Interface
- Filesystem
- Abstraction Layer
- VFS Objects and Their
- Data Structures
- super block
- inode block
- data block
- boot block
- Kernel High level MMU
- Kernel Low level MMU
- Kernel Memory Allocators
- slab allocator
- page allocator
- fragment allocator
- pool allocator
- Soft irqs
- Tasklets
- Work Queues
- Reader/ Writer Semaphores
- Reader/ Writer Spinlocks
- Atomic Operations
- HZ & Jiffies, Delays
- Kernel Timers
- Information about processes
- communication between kernel space and user space
/proc/devices
- Registering a System Call
- System Call Handler
- Service Routines
- Character Drivers
- Synchronous Driver model
- Major and Minor Numbers
- Registering and Unregistering
- Static and Dynamic allocations
- Important Structures
- File
- Inode
- Character Devices
- Adding, Allocating, Initializing and Deleting
- User Space Applications and Device Driver mapping
- Device file operations
- Access methods within the driver, open, read, write and close
- Advanced Character Drivers
- Ioctl implementations
- Wait queues and pollings
- Accessing I/O Ports
- Accessing I/O Memoiry
- USB Architecture & Protocol
- Types of Descriptors
- URB structure creation
- USB subsystems
- USB Driver Layered Architecture
- USB Device Drivers
- Understanding the USB framework.
- Programming the Control Endpoint Zero.
- Exchanging the Interrupt Messages
- File System Implementation
- Virtual File System & its Role
- File System Design & Challenges
- Kernel File System & and its Operation Sets
- Auto-probing & detection of a USB device