This tag is for questions about the internals of the Linux kernel itself - particularly about writing code that runs within the context of the kernel (like kernel modules or drivers).
I read the document Understanding Virtual Memory and it said one method for changing tunable parameters in the Linux VM …
linux-kernelIn the Linux real-time process priority range 1 to 99, it's unclear to me which is the highest priority, 1 or 99. Section 7.2.2 of "…
linux linux-kernel real-timeHow do I manually convert jiffies to milliseconds and vice versa in Linux? I know kernel 2.6 has a function for …
linux linux-kernelI am trying to configure the ARP age timeout. I think I should set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/…
linux linux-kernel arpI am using an Android Custom ROM on my device, also with a custom boot.img (custom kernel + cmdline + ramdisk). …
android linux-kernel root logging panicCan anybody tell me how to handle the software watchdog in Linux? I have a program SampleApplication which runs continuously …
linux linux-kernel busybox watchdogI need to write an SPI Linux character device driver for omap4 from scratch. I know some basics of writing …
c linux linux-kernel linux-device-driver embedded-linuxIf I am running a container in privileged mode, does it have all the Kernel capabilities or do I need …
docker linux-kernel kubernetes linux-capabilitiesI am just curious is there any way to determine if a particular module is loaded/installed. $lsmod lists all …
unix linux-kernel insmodWhen I was browsing the Linux kernel, I found a container_of macro which is defined as follows: #define container_…
c linux-kernel c-preprocessor