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).
It's a question which has been asked many times, however there is no well supported answer I could find. Many …
linux linux-kernel cpu calculator cpu-usageOs:REDHAT LINUX Linux manage: 2.6.18.8-1 # Is this possible to read MAC address form NIC directly ? I have below code …
linux sockets linux-kernel linux-device-driver mac-addressI have a device tree file (.dts) and I want to compile the file for my powerpc based board. How …
linux-kernel cross-compiling embedded-linux powerpc device-treeI've encoutered these to instructions IN & OUT while reading "Understanding Linux Kernel" book. I've looked up reference manual. 5.1.9 I/…
assembly x86 linux-kernelOn an SMP machine we must use spin_lock_irqsave and not spin_lock_irq from interrupt context. Why would …
linux-kernel spinlockI was trying to capture keyboard events. e.g. I want to drill down a keylogger from the scratch. After 2 …
linux linux-kernel linux-device-driverI'm compiling a custom kernel under Ubuntu and I'm running into the problem that my kernel doesn't seem to know …
linux-kernel linux-device-driver firmwareI'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and kernel version 3.13.11.4. I'm trying to load patched KVM modules kvm and kvm-intel and I'm getting …
c linux linux-kernel kernel-module kvmI'm trying to write some simple test code as a demonstration of hooking the system call table. "sys_call_table" …
c linux-kernel hookI read that Linux is a monolithic kernel. Does monolithic kernel mean compiling and linking the complete kernel code into …
architecture operating-system linux-kernel