The Linux Kernel/Template

Topic template This template is for contributors to structure their content. Fill in the placeholders as needed. Not to be confused with ... – disambiguation note for terms that share a name. 🔧 TODO ... 🗝️ Acronyms and/or key terms API – Application Program Interface ... 🖱️ GUI 1 git-gui – A portable graphical interface to Git ... 🛠️ Utilities 1 ls – Lists directory contents ... ⚲ APIs 1 intro – Introduction to user commands 2 intro – Introduction to system calls 4 intro – Introduction to special files uapi – User-space API 2 syscall ↪ entry_SYSCALL_64 ↯ Call hierarchy: do_syscall_64 ... queue_work ↬ work_func_t ... 🪛 Compile-time configurations CONFIG_LOCALVERSION – append to kernel release 👁️ Example samples ... ⚙️ Internals printk kernel tools/testing/selftests ... 🚀 Advanced features ... ... 📖 References The Linux Kernel documentation # Documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/ admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.html initcall_debug ... 📚 Further reading Kernel mailing lists LKML linux-doc ML KernelNewbies ML Linux kernel https://deepwiki.com/torvalds/linux https://wiki.archlinux.org/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel ... 💾 Historical Linux Kernel Internals Kernel Analysis HOWTO Kernel documentation archive ...