Linux Device Drivers & Kernel Internals (DEC402)

Duration: 7 Days ( 40 Hours)

Course Code: DEC402

Objectives:

 Module Programming  Direct Memory Access

 Device Drivers  PCI Drivers
 Character Device Drivers  USB Drivers
 Interrupt Handling  Network Device Drivers
 Advanced File Operations  Introduction to Block Device Drivers
 Interacting With Devices  Debugging Techniques
 Other issues

Prerequisites:

 Experience in C programming
 Linux System Administration or equivalent UNIX or Linux workstation user skills for development
 Shell scripting in a UNIX or Linux environment
 Experience with text editors (vi, emacs)

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Linux Device Drivers & Kernel Internals

1. Module Programming 5. Interrupt Handling 10. PCI Drivers

 Kernel coding  Interrupt Context  Peripheral Component Interconnect

 Module programming  Handling Interrupts  PCI Configuration Space
 Module dependency  Interrupt Structures  PCI Driver Registration
 Module parameter passing  ISR Registration  Registering PCI Drivers
 System Context  Driver Probe Function
2. Character Device Drivers  Softirqs  Initializing PCI devices
 Deferred Activity: Tasklets  Releasing a PCI Device
 Device Drivers  Deferred Activity: Work Queues  Managing PCI Resources
 Device Driver Design  Custom Work Queues  Accessing Configuration Space
 Interacting with Character Device  Example: Keyboard, Mouse  Listing PCI Devices
Drivers
 Interacting with Block Device 11. Network Device Drivers
Drivers 6. Interacting With Devices
 Interacting with Network Interface  Networking
Cards  Device Interaction  Network Devices
 Device Nodes  Managing Exclusive Access  Network Device Callback Functions
 Character Device Drivers:  I/O Ports  Network Driver Initialization
Registration  I/O Memory Buffers  Network Driver Transmission Queue
 The Device Node Problem  Accessing I/O Memory Buffers  Control
 File Operations  Userspace Drivers  Network Statistics
 Defining File Operations  Socket Buffers (Packets)
 Registering File Operations  Socket Buffer API
 File I/O Conventions 7. Memory Management in Kernel  Transmission
 open  Reception
 close  Memory Initialization  Example Implementations
 read  Memory Management
 write  page allocators 12. Sysfs, procfs and Debugfs,
 lseek  slab allocator probing , notifications
 buddy allocator
3. Kerel Synchronization methods  fragment and cache  sysfs intro
 bootmem allocator  sysfs entry
 Source of concurrency  kmalloc and kfree  procfs intro
 Kernel Synchronization techquiques  vmalloc  procfs entry
 atomic operations  debugfs intro
 semapores 8. Direct Memory Access  debugfs entry
 mutex  probing techniques
 spin locks  Managing DMA  notifications techniques
 reach copy update  Initializing DMA
 memory barriers  Coherent Allocations 13. USB Drivers **
 etc  Streaming DMA Mappings
 The Universal Serial Bus
4. Advanced File Operations  USB Descriptors
9. Introduction to Block Device Drivers  USB Transfer Types
 IOCTLs  Linux USB Implementation
 IOCTL Conventions  Block Devices  USB Drivers
 Implementing IOCTLs  I/O Scheduling  USB Registration
 Lockless IOCTLs  Linux 2.6 Elevator Functions  Initializing USB Interfaces
 Sleeping  Block Device Driver  USB Class Drivers
 Wait Queues Implementation  USB Request Blocks
 Wait Queues  Block Device Registration  Using USB request blocks
 Variations on wait_event()  Block Device File Operations  Synchronous USB Requests
 Sleeping in System Calls  The gendisk structure  More information
 Multiplexed I/O  Request Queues
 Polling  Initialization Example
 Handling Requests

** If time permits or Extras

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