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Summary
- Booting
- Initialization
- First steps in the kernel
- Early interrupts handler
- Last preparations before the kernel entry point
- Kernel entry point
- Continue architecture-specific boot-time initializations
- Architecture-specific initializations, again...
- End of the architecture-specific initializations, almost...
- Scheduler initialization
- RCU initialization
- End of initialization
- Interrupts
- Introduction
- Start to dive into interrupts
- Interrupt handlers
- Initialization of non-early interrupt gates
- Implementation of some exception handlers
- Handling Non-Maskable interrupts
- Dive into external hardware interrupts
- Initialization of external hardware interrupts structures
- Softirq, Tasklets and Workqueues
- Last part
- System calls
- Timers and time management
- Synchronization primitives
- Introduction to spinlocks
- Queued spinlocks
- Semaphores
- Mutex
- Reader/Writer semaphores
- [SeqLock]()
- [RCU]()
- [Lockdep]()
- Memory management
- [SMP]()
- Concepts
- Data Structures in the Linux Kernel
- Theory
- Paging
- Elf64
- Inline assembly
- [CPUID]()
- [MSR]()
- [Initial ram disk]()
- [initrd]()
- Misc
- How the kernel is compiled
- Linkers
- Linux kernel development
- [Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch]()
- [Data types in the kernel]()
- Useful links
- Contributors