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Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition
By Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Alessandro Rubini

Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: February 2005
ISBN	: 0-596-00590-3
Pages	: 636

Jon's Introduction

Alessandro's Introduction

Greg's Introduction

Audience for This Book

Organization of the Material

Background Information

Online Version and License

Conventions Used in This Book

Using Code Examples

We'd Like to Hear from You

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Device Drivers

Section 1.1. The Role of the Device Driver

Section 1.2. Splitting the Kernel

Section 1.3. Classes of Devices and Modules

Section 1.4. Security Issues

Section 1.5. Version Numbering

Section 1.6. License Terms

Section 1.7. Joining the Kernel Development Community

Section 1.8. Overview of the Book

Chapter 2. Building and Running Modules

Section 2.1. Setting Up Your Test System

Section 2.2. The Hello World Module

Section 2.3. Kernel Modules Versus Applications

Section 2.4. Compiling and Loading

Section 2.5. The Kernel Symbol Table

Section 2.6. Preliminaries

Section 2.7. Initialization and Shutdown

Section 2.8. Module Parameters

Section 2.9. Doing It in User Space

Section 2.10. Quick Reference

Chapter 3. Char Drivers

Section 3.1. The Design of scull

Section 3.2. Major and Minor Numbers

Section 3.3. Some Important Data Structures

Section 3.4. Char Device Registration

Section 3.5. open and release

Section 3.6. scull's Memory Usage

Section 3.7. read and write

Section 3.8. Playing with the New Devices

Section 3.9. Quick Reference

Chapter 4. Debugging Techniques

Section 4.1. Debugging Support in the Kernel

Section 4.2. Debugging by Printing

Section 4.3. Debugging by Querying

Section 4.4. Debugging by Watching

Section 4.5. Debugging System Faults

Section 4.6. Debuggers and Related Tools

Chapter 5. Concurrency and Race Conditions

Section 5.1. Pitfalls in scull

Section 5.2. Concurrency and Its Management

Section 5.3. Semaphores and Mutexes

Section 5.4. Completions

Section 5.5. Spinlocks

Section 5.6. Locking Traps

Section 5.7. Alternatives to Locking

Section 5.8. Quick Reference

Chapter 6. Advanced Char Driver Operations

Section 6.1. ioctl

Section 6.2. Blocking I/O

Section 6.3. poll and select

Section 6.4. Asynchronous Notification

Section 6.5. Seeking a Device

Section 6.6. Access Control on a Device File

Section 6.7. Quick Reference

Chapter 7. Time, Delays, and Deferred Work

Section 7.1. Measuring Time Lapses

Section 7.2. Knowing the Current Time

Section 7.3. Delaying Execution

Section 7.4. Kernel Timers

Section 7.5. Tasklets

Section 7.6. Workqueues

Section 7.7. Quick Reference

Chapter 8. Allocating Memory

Section 8.1. The Real Story of kmalloc

Section 8.2. Lookaside Caches

Section 8.3. get_free_page and Friends

Section 8.4. vmalloc and Friends

Section 8.5. Per-CPU Variables

Section 8.6. Obtaining Large Buffers

Section 8.7. Quick Reference

Chapter 9. Communicating with Hardware

Section 9.1. I/O Ports and I/O Memory

Section 9.2. Using I/O Ports

Section 9.3. An I/O Port Example

Section 9.4. Using I/O Memory

Section 9.5. Quick Reference

Chapter 10. Interrupt Handling

Section 10.1. Preparing the Parallel Port

Section 10.2. Installing an Interrupt Handler

Section 10.3. Implementing a Handler

Section 10.4. Top and Bottom Halves

Section 10.5. Interrupt Sharing

Section 10.6. Interrupt-Driven I/O

Section 10.7. Quick Reference

Chapter 11. Data Types in the Kernel

Section 11.1. Use of Standard C Types

Section 11.2. Assigning an Explicit Size to Data Items

Section 11.3. Interface-Specific Types

Section 11.4. Other Portability Issues

Section 11.5. Linked Lists

Section 11.6. Quick Reference

Chapter 12. PCI Drivers

Section 12.1. The PCI Interface

Section 12.2. A Look Back: ISA

Section 12.3. PC/104 and PC/104+

Section 12.4. Other PC Buses

Section 12.5. SBus

Section 12.6. NuBus

Section 12.7. External Buses

Section 12.8. Quick Reference

Chapter 13. USB Drivers

Section 13.1. USB Device Basics

Section 13.2. USB and Sysfs

Section 13.3. USB Urbs

Section 13.4. Writing a USB Driver

Section 13.5. USB Transfers Without Urbs

Section 13.6. Quick Reference

Chapter 14. The Linux Device Model

Section 14.1. Kobjects, Ksets, and Subsystems

Section 14.2. Low-Level Sysfs Operations

Section 14.3. Hotplug Event Generation

Section 14.4. Buses, Devices, and Drivers

Section 14.5. Classes

Section 14.6. Putting It All Together

Section 14.7. Hotplug

Section 14.8. Dealing with Firmware

Section 14.9. Quick Reference

Chapter 15. Memory Mapping and DMA

Section 15.1. Memory Management in Linux

Section 15.2. The mmap Device Operation

Section 15.3. Performing Direct I/O

Section 15.4. Direct Memory Access

Section 15.5. Quick Reference

Chapter 16. Block Drivers

Section 16.1. Registration

Section 16.2. The Block Device Operations

Section 16.3. Request Processing

Section 16.4. Some Other Details

Section 16.5. Quick Reference

Chapter 17. Network Drivers

Section 17.1. How snull Is Designed

Section 17.2. Connecting to the Kernel

Section 17.3. The net_device Structure in Detail

Section 17.4. Opening and Closing

Section 17.5. Packet Transmission

Section 17.6. Packet Reception

Section 17.7. The Interrupt Handler

Section 17.8. Receive Interrupt Mitigation

Section 17.9. Changes in Link State

Section 17.10. The Socket Buffers

Section 17.11. MAC Address Resolution

Section 17.12. Custom ioctl Commands

Section 17.13. Statistical Information

Section 17.14. Multicast

Section 17.15. A Few Other Details

Section 17.16. Quick Reference

Chapter 18. TTY Drivers

Section 18.1. A Small TTY Driver

Section 18.2. tty_driver Function Pointers

Section 18.3. TTY Line Settings

Section 18.4. ioctls

Section 18.5. proc and sysfs Handling of TTY Devices

Section 18.6. The tty_driver Structure in Detail

Section 18.7. The tty_operations Structure in Detail

Section 18.8. The tty_struct Structure in Detail

Section 18.9. Quick Reference

Chapter 19. Bibliography

Section 19.1. Books

Section 19.2. Web Sites