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Course Content

Linux Kernel Driver


• Introduction of Linux Device Drivers
◦ The role of the device driver
◦ Splitting the kernel

◦ Classes of devices and modules

◦ Joining the kernel development community

• Building and running modules

◦ Setting up your test system


◦ The Hello World Module

◦ Kernel modules versus applications

◦ Compiling and Loading

◦ The kernel symbol table

◦ Initialization and shutdown

• Char drivers

◦ Major and minor numbers


◦ Some important data structures
◦ Char devices registration
◦ open and release

◦ scull’s Memory Usage


◦ read and write

◦ Playing with the new devices


• Debugging Techniques

◦ Debugging support in the kernel


◦ Debugging by Printing
◦ Debugging by querying

◦ Debugging by Watching
◦ Debugging System Faults
◦ Debugging and related tools

• Concurrency and race conditions


◦ Pitfalls in scull

◦ Concurrency and its management


◦ Semaphores and mutexes
◦ Completions

◦ Spinlocks

◦ Locking Traps

• Advanced char driver operations

• Time, Delays,and Deferred work

◦ Measuring Time Lapses

◦ Knowing the Current Time


◦ Delaying Execution

◦ Kernel Timers

◦ Tasklets

• Allocating memory

◦ The Real Story of kmalloc


◦ Get_free_page and Friends

◦ vmalloc and Friends


◦ Per-CPU Variables

◦ Obtaining Large Buffers

• Communicating with hardware


◦ Input/Output Ports and Input/Output Memory

◦ Using I/O Ports

◦ An I/O Port Example


◦ Using I/O Memory
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• Interrupt Handling

◦ Preparing the Parallel Port

◦ Installing an Interrupt Handler


◦ Top and Bottom Halves

◦ Interrupt Sharing

◦ Implementing a Handler

• Data types in kernel

◦ Use of Standard C Types

◦ Assigning an Explicit Size to Data Items

◦ Interface-Specific Types
◦ Other Portability Issues

◦ Linked Lists

• PCI drivers
◦ The PCI Interface

◦ A Look Back: ISA


◦ PC/104 and PC/104+

◦ Other PC Buses

◦ SBus

◦ NuBus

• USB Driver

◦ USB Device Basics


◦ USB and Sysfs

◦ Writing a USB Driver

◦ USB Transfers Without Urbs

◦ Concept related to USB drivers

• The linux device model

◦ Kobjects, Ksets, and Subsystems

◦ Low-Level Sysfs Operations


◦ Hotplug Event Generation

◦ Buses, Devices, and Drivers

◦ Putting It All Together

◦ Hotplug

◦ Dealing with Firmware

• Memory mapping and DMA

◦ Memory Management in Linux


◦ The mmap Device Operation
◦ Performing Direct Input/Output

◦ Direct Memory Access

• Network Drivers

◦ How snull Is Designed

◦ Connecting to the Kernel

◦ The net_device Structure in Detail


◦ Opening and Closing

◦ Packet Transmission

◦ Packet Reception

◦ Receive Interrupt Mitigation

◦ Changes in Link State

◦ The Socket Buffers

• TTY driver
◦ A Small TTY Driver

◦ tty_driver Function Pointers

◦ TTY Line Settings

◦ ioctls

◦ proc and sysfs Handling of TTY Devices

◦ The tty_driver Structure in Detail


◦ The tty_operations Structure in Detail

◦ The tty_struct Structure in Detail


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