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diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst index 7a45a8e36ea7..c67ac12cf789 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst @@ -1,41 +1,36 @@ .. _kernel_docs: -Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel -============================================================================================= +Index of Further Kernel Documentation +===================================== - Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> +The need for a document like this one became apparent in the linux-kernel +mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers to information, +appeared again and again. -The need for a document like this one became apparent in the -linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers -to information, appeared again and again. +Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more get +interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always enough. It +is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the philosophy and +design decisions behind this code. -Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more -get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always -enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the -philosophy and design decisions behind this code. - -Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to -start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which -kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents -available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference -books are also mentioned. +Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to start. +And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which kept track +of them. These lines try to cover this lack. PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document, -send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any -corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed. - -The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are -cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the -"Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful -when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the -Document. +include a reference to it here, following the kernel's patch submission +process. Any corrections, ideas or comments are also welcome. -Enjoy! +All documents are cataloged with the following fields: the document's +"Title", the "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" +helpful when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of +the Document. .. note:: The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its - published date, from the newest to the oldest. + published date, from the newest to the oldest. The maintainer(s) should + periodically retire resources as they become obsolete or outdated; with + the exception of foundational books. Docs at the Linux Kernel tree ----------------------------- @@ -65,393 +60,74 @@ On-line docs a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear during discussion of the Linux kernel". - * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel** - - :Author: Richard Sailer - :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper - :Date: 2016 - :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace - :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for - understanding linux kernel internals, - illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel. - :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework - as a tool to understand a running Linux system. - Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand - source code more determined and with context. - In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing - and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel. - Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual - exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.* - - * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches** - - :Author: Andi Kleen - :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf - :Date: 2008 - :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies - :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches - there are and how likley they get merged. - :Abstract: - [...]. This paper examines some common problems for - submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems. - - * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition** - - :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman - :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ - :Date: 2005 - :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver - programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the - Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. - :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`. + * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** - * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver** - - :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html - :Date: 2005 - :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. - :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, - both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel - sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. - - * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide** - - :Author: David Hinds. - :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html - :Date: 2003 - :Keywords: PCMCIA. - :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device - drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also - describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with - Card Services. - - * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** - - :Author: Ori Pomerantz. - :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html - :Date: 2001 + :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram, + Jim Huang. + :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/ + :Date: 2021 :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, interrupt handlers . - :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules - programming. Lots of examples. - - * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage** - - :Author: Rick Lindsley. - :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock - :Date: 2001 - :Keywords: spinlock. - :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and - usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive - list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions - access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it - is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... - - * Title: **A Linux vm README** - - :Author: Kanoj Sarcar. - :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html - :Date: 2001 - :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page - cache, swap cache, kswapd. - :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions - relating the Linux virtual memory implementation. - - * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406 - :Date: 2000 - :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, - camera driver. - :Description: The title says it all. - - * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429 - :Date: 2000 - :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, - camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. - :Description: The title says it all. - - * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.** - - :Author: Glenn Herrin. - :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin - :Date: 2000 - :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection, - socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, - modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags. - :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking, - explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space - configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of - the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps - packets follow from the time they are received at the network - device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel - code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet - dropper example. - - * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh** - - :Author: Paul Mackerras. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261 - :Date: 1999 - :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility. - :Description: The title says it all. - - * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284 - :Date: 1999 - :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver. - :Description: The title says it all. - - * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307 - :Date: 1999 - :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced. - :Description: The title says it all. - - * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330 - :Date: 1999 - :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. - :Description: The title says it all. - - * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356 - :Date: 1999 - :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O. - :Description: The title still says it all. - - * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381 - :Date: 1999 - :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. - :Description: The title says it all. - - * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux** - - :Author: Richard Gooch. - :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html - :Date: 1999 - :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness - event queues. - :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about - how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of - open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your - application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active - (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you - want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of - inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage". - - * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.** - - :Author: pragmatic/THC. - :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html - :Date: 1999 - :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table. - :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in - order to intercept and modify syscalls, make - files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys, - write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to - avoid all those abuses. - :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x - kernels. - - * Name: **Linux Virtual File System** - - :Author: Peter J. Braam. - :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ - :Date: 1998 - :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache. - :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the - Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the - dcache. - - * Title: **The Venus kernel interface** - - :Author: Peter J. Braam. - :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html - :Date: 1998 - :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager. - :Description: "This document describes the communication between - Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation - of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe - the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we - envisage". - - * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem** - - :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. - :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html - :Date: 1998 - :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, - VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, - ext2fs tools, e2fsck. - :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers. - Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features, - design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks, - e2fsck's passes description... A must read! - :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the - First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9. - - * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code** - - :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 - :Date: 1997 - :Keywords: RAID, MD driver. - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its - :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, - RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the - Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, - secondary-storage capability using software*. - - * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide** - - :Author: Michael K. Johnson. - :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html - :Date: 1997 - :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs - block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, - memory allocation, timers. - :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the - concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal - structures of Linux. - - * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers** - - :Author: Alessandro Rubini. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 - :Date: 1996 - :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, - allocating resources. - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its - :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles - co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present - a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel - loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the - topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's - installment*. - - * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery** - - :Author: Alessandro Rubini. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 - :Date: 1996 - :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, - autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, - open(), close(). - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its - :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of - the actual code to create custom module implementing a character - device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and - cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*. - - * Title: **The Devil's in the Details** - - :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 - :Date: 1996 - :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non - blocking mode, interrupt handler. - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its - :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character - device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using - ioctl-calls*. - - * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA** - - :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 - :Date: 1996 - :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its - :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about - writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This - month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling. - Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and - constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver - writing, and several different facilities have been provided for - different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of - DMA*. - - * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded** - - :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 - :Date: 1996 - :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, - demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, - virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI. - :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles - series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of - five articles about character device drivers. In this final - section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with - an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts". - - * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 - :Date: 1996 - :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer - variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, - configuration, multicast. - :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. - :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally - simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the - hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*. - - * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure** - - :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. - :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/ - :Date: 1994 - :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. - :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, - bitmaps, invariants... + :Description: A very nice GPL book on the topic of modules + programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being + actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg. Published books --------------- - * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln** + * Title: **The Linux Memory Manager** + + :Author: Lorenzo Stoakes + :Publisher: No Starch Press + :Date: February 2025 + :Pages: 1300 + :ISBN: 978-1718504462 + :Notes: Memory management. Full draft available as early access for + pre-order, full release scheduled for Fall 2025. See + https://nostarch.com/linux-memory-manager for further info. + + * Title: **Practical Linux System Administration: A Guide to Installation, Configuration, and Management, 1st Edition** + + :Author: Kenneth Hess + :Publisher: O'Reilly Media + :Date: May, 2023 + :Pages: 246 + :ISBN: 978-1098109035 + :Notes: System administration + + * Title: **Linux Kernel Debugging: Leverage proven tools and advanced techniques to effectively debug Linux kernels and kernel modules** + + :Author: Kaiwan N Billimoria + :Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd + :Date: August, 2022 + :Pages: 638 + :ISBN: 978-1801075039 + :Notes: Debugging book - :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst - :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag - :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition) - :Pages: 688 - :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8 - :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is - much cheaper and still quite up-to-date. + * Title: **Linux Kernel Programming: A Comprehensive Guide to Kernel Internals, Writing Kernel Modules, and Kernel Synchronization** - * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory** + :Author: Kaiwan N Billimoria + :Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd + :Date: March, 2021 (Second Edition published in 2024) + :Pages: 754 + :ISBN: 978-1789953435 (Second Edition ISBN is 978-1803232225) - :Author: Rami Rosen - :Publisher: Apress - :Date: December 22, 2013 - :Pages: 648 - :ISBN: 978-1430261964 + * Title: **Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization: Create user-kernel interfaces, work with peripheral I/O, and handle hardware interrupts** - * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition** + :Author: Kaiwan N Billimoria + :Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd + :Date: March, 2021 + :Pages: 452 + :ISBN: 978-1801079518 - :Author: Christopher Hallinan - :Publisher: Pearson - :Date: November, 2010 - :Pages: 656 - :ISBN: 978-0137017836 + * Title: **Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library** + + :Author: Robert Love + :Publisher: O'Reilly Media + :Date: June, 2013 + :Pages: 456 + :ISBN: 978-1449339531 + :Notes: Foundational book * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition** @@ -460,14 +136,7 @@ Published books :Date: July, 2010 :Pages: 440 :ISBN: 978-0672329463 - - * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers** - - :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran - :Published: Prentice Hall - :Date: April, 2008 - :Pages: 744 - :ISBN: 978-0132396554 + :Notes: Foundational book .. _ldd3_published: @@ -478,67 +147,9 @@ Published books :Date: 2005 :Pages: 636 :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 - :Notes: Further information in + :Notes: Foundational book. Further information in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ - PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ - - * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals** - - :Author: Michael Beck - :Publisher: Addison-Wesley - :Date: 1997 - :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition) - - * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau** - - :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel - :Publisher: Eyrolles - :Date: 1997 - :Pages: 520 - :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5 - :Notes: French - - * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System** - - :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, - John S. Quarterman - :Publisher: Addison-Wesley - :Date: 1996 - :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4 - - * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers** - - :Author: Uresh Vahalia - :Publisher: Prentice Hall - :Date: 1996 - :Pages: 600 - :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 - - * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4** - - :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister - :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc - :Date: 1995 - :Pages: 552 - :ISBN: I-56592-074-0 - :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be - POSIX. Good reference. - - * Title: **UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers** - - :Author: Curt Schimmel - :Publisher: Addison Wesley - :Date: June, 1994 - :Pages: 432 - :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8 - - * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System** - - :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J - Karels, John S. Quarterman - :Publisher: Addison-Wesley - :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990) - :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1 + PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System** @@ -547,6 +158,7 @@ Published books :Date: 1986 :Pages: 471 :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 + :Notes: Foundational book Miscellaneous ------------- @@ -561,16 +173,16 @@ Miscellaneous * Name: **Linux Weekly News** - :URL: http://lwn.net + :URL: https://lwn.net :Keywords: latest kernel news. :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions - produced during the week. Published every Thursday. + produced during the week. * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** :Author: The Linux-MM team. - :URL: http://linux-mm.org/ + :URL: https://linux-mm.org/ :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, mailing list. :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. @@ -579,7 +191,7 @@ Miscellaneous * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website** - :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org + :URL: https://www.kernelnewbies.org :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts. :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net. #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie' @@ -593,16 +205,177 @@ Miscellaneous * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines** - :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html - :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html - :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel + :URL: https://subspace.kernel.org + :URL: https://lore.kernel.org :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search. :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If you have a better/another one, please let me know. + * Name: **The Linux Foundation YouTube channel** + + :URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/thelinuxfoundation + :Keywords: linux, videos, linux-foundation, youtube. + :Description: The Linux Foundation uploads video recordings of their + collaborative events, Linux conferences including LinuxCon, and + other original research and content related to Linux and software + development. + +Rust +---- + + * Title: **Rust for Linux** + + :Author: various + :URL: https://rust-for-linux.com/ + :Date: rolling version + :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel, rust. + :Description: From the website: "Rust for Linux is the project adding + support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel. This website is + intended as a hub of links, documentation and resources related to + the project". + + * Title: **Learn Rust the Dangerous Way** + + :Author: Cliff L. Biffle + :URL: https://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/ + :Date: Accessed Sep 11 2024 + :Keywords: rust, blog. + :Description: From the website: "LRtDW is a series of articles + putting Rust features in context for low-level C programmers who + maybe don’t have a formal CS background — the sort of people who + work on firmware, game engines, OS kernels, and the like. + Basically, people like me.". It illustrates line-by-line + conversions from C to Rust. + + * Title: **The Rust Book** + + :Author: Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols, with contributions from the + Rust community + :URL: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ + :Date: Accessed Sep 11 2024 + :Keywords: rust, book. + :Description: From the website: "This book fully embraces the + potential of Rust to empower its users. It’s a friendly and + approachable text intended to help you level up not just your + knowledge of Rust, but also your reach and confidence as a + programmer in general. So dive in, get ready to learn—and welcome + to the Rust community!". + + * Title: **Rust for the Polyglot Programmer** + + :Author: Ian Jackson + :URL: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ianmdlvl/rust-polyglot/index.html + :Date: December 2022 + :Keywords: rust, blog, tooling. + :Description: From the website: "There are many guides and + introductions to Rust. This one is something different: it is + intended for the experienced programmer who already knows many + other programming languages. I try to be comprehensive enough to be + a starting point for any area of Rust, but to avoid going into too + much detail except where things are not as you might expect. Also + this guide is not entirely free of opinion, including + recommendations of libraries (crates), tooling, etc.". + + * Title: **Fasterthanli.me** + + :Author: Amos Wenger + :URL: https://fasterthanli.me/ + :Date: Accessed Sep 11 2024 + :Keywords: rust, blog, news. + :Description: From the website: "I make articles and videos about how + computers work. My content is long-form, didactic and exploratory + — and often an excuse to teach Rust!". + + * Title: **Comprehensive Rust** + + :Author: Android team at Google + :URL: https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/ + :Date: Accessed Sep 13 2024 + :Keywords: rust, blog. + :Description: From the website: "The course covers the full spectrum + of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and + error handling". + + * Title: **The Embedded Rust Book** + + :Author: Multiple contributors, mostly Jorge Aparicio + :URL: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/ + :Date: Accessed Sep 13 2024 + :Keywords: rust, blog. + :Description: From the website: "An introductory book about using + the Rust Programming Language on "Bare Metal" embedded systems, + such as Microcontrollers". + + * Title: **Experiment: Improving the Rust Book** + + :Author: Cognitive Engineering Lab at Brown University + :URL: https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/ + :Date: Accessed Sep 22 2024 + :Keywords: rust, blog. + :Description: From the website: "The goal of this experiment is to + evaluate and improve the content of the Rust Book to help people + learn Rust more effectively.". + + * Title: **New Rustacean** (podcast) + + :Author: Chris Krycho + :URL: https://newrustacean.com/ + :Date: Accessed Sep 22 2024 + :Keywords: rust, podcast. + :Description: From the website: "This is a podcast about learning + the programming language Rust—from scratch! Apart from this spiffy + landing page, all the site content is built with Rust's own + documentation tools.". + + * Title: **Opsem-team** (repository) + + :Author: Operational semantics team + :URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/opsem-team/tree/main + :Date: Accessed Sep 22 2024 + :Keywords: rust, repository. + :Description: From the README: "The opsem team is the successor of + the unsafe-code-guidelines working group and responsible for + answering many of the difficult questions about the semantics of + unsafe Rust". + + * Title: **You Can't Spell Trust Without Rust** + + :Author: Alexis Beingessner + :URL: https://repository.library.carleton.ca/downloads/1j92g820w?locale=en + :Date: 2015 + :Keywords: rust, master, thesis. + :Description: This thesis focuses on Rust's ownership system, which + ensures memory safety by controlling data manipulation and + lifetime, while also highlighting its limitations and comparing it + to similar systems in Cyclone and C++. + + * Name: **Linux Plumbers (LPC) 2024 Rust presentations** + + :Title: Rust microconference + :URL: https://lpc.events/event/18/sessions/186/#20240918 + :Title: Rust for Linux + :URL: https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1912/ + :Title: Journey of a C kernel engineer starting a Rust driver project + :URL: https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1911/ + :Title: Crafting a Linux kernel scheduler that runs in user-space + using Rust + :URL: https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1723/ + :Title: openHCL: A Linux and Rust based paravisor + :URL: https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1956/ + :Keywords: rust, lpc, presentations. + :Description: A number of LPC talks related to Rust. + + * Name: **The Rustacean Station Podcast** + + :URL: https://rustacean-station.org/ + :Keywords: rust, podcasts. + :Description: A community project for creating podcast content for + the Rust programming language. + ------- -Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20 +This document was originally based on: + + https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html -This document is based on: - http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html +and written by Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche |