Linux Programming

Interesting articles

• How not to write a device driver? (common issues in device drivers) http://www.fenrus.org/how-to-not-write-a-device-driver-paper.pdf
• Discussion on "goto" between Linus Torvalds, Rob Wilkens and Robert Love: http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131
• Driving Me Nuts - Things You Never Should Do in the Kernel: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8110
• Kernel system calls: http://www.linux.it/~rubini/docs/ksys/ksys.html
• Kernel Korner - Sleeping in the Kernel: http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/8144/print

Device driver interests

• Memory management, mmap and DMA: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch13.html#t1
• The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/
• USB drivers (usb-host): http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch13.pdf
• Linux USB gadget API
  • Framework: http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/
  • API references: http://www.gnugeneration.com/books/linux/2.6.20/gadget/
  • Driver structure and OTG: http://tali.admingilde.org/linux-docbook/gadget/index.html
• Linux Kernel API: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/teaching/lectures/systems/08_09/docs/kernelAPI/
• Platform devices and drivers: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mochel/doc/text/platform.txt
• Dispatching Hardware Events in a Multi-Threaded Linux Application: PDF

Traces and debugging

• Kernel Hard and soft panics: http://rhcelinuxguide.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/linux-kernel-panic-prevent-cardiac-arrest/
• Driver debugging methods (printk, /proc, ioctl, strace, kdb, kgdb, schedule(), UML, LTT): http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch04.pdf
• KGDB for ARM (modules/apps): http://kgdb.linsyssoft.com/quickstart.htm#mozTocId440917
• ARM RealView debugger (images): http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0153i/Babjdfba.html
• KDB usage: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kdbug/
• KDB front-end for kgdb: http://lwn.net/Articles/332611/
• process trace (ptrace system call): http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace
• Use DebugFS to quickly export kernel data to userspace: http://kerneltrap.org/node/4394

Books

• The Linux Kernel: http://tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk-toc.html
• Understanding the Linux Kernel: PDF
• Linux Device Drivers 3rd Edition: Link
• Linux System Programming: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009588 (View Online)
• Advanced Linux Programming: http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/alp-folder
• The Linux Programmer's Guide: http://tldp.org/LDP/lpg/node1.html