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).
Among the timing functions, time, clock getrusage, clock_gettime, gettimeofday and timespec_get, I want to understand clearly how they …
c linux time linux-kernelConsider the following linux kernel dump stack trace, you can trigger a panic from the kernel source code by calling …
c linux debugging linux-kernel panicI am trying to write a linux kernel module that communicates with user process using netlink. I am using netlink …
c linux-kernel linux-device-driver netlinkI tried checking on Google, but I couldn't find much information related to the actual question. How do I get …
linux unix linux-kernel admin aixI have an FPGA (Like most of the people asking this question) that gets configured after my Linux kernel does …
linux-kernel linux-device-driver pci-e hotpluggingIn the linux kernel, what does the probe() method, that the driver provides, do? How different is it from the …
linux operating-system linux-kernelCan someone give me proc_create() example? Earlier they used create_proc_entry() in the kernel but now they are …
linux-kernel linux-device-driverBoy, this is such. a. trivial. question, and yet nobody seems to be able to answer it correctly. How do …
linux linux-kernel deviceI'm receiving the following warning from mongodb about THP 2015-03-06T21:01:15.526-0800 I CONTROL [initandlisten] ** WARNING: /sys/kernel/mm/…
linux mongodb linux-kernelHow do the Linux kernel developers test their code locally and after they have it committed? Do they use some …
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