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The following manuals are written for users of the kernel — those who are trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application developers seeking information on the kernel’s …

Aug 6, 2024 · Kernel.org accounts are usually reserved for subsystem maintainers or high-profile developers. It is absolutely not necessary to have an account on kernel.org to contribute to the …

The maintainers of the various kernel subsystems — and also many kernel subsystem developers — expose their current state of development in source repositories.

There are a great many reasons why kernel code should be merged into the official (“mainline”) kernel, including automatic availability to users, community support in many forms, and the …

This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the Linux kernel for safety critical applications.

Memory for the kernel data structures, DMAable memory, inode cache, all these and many other allocations types can use GFP_KERNEL. Note, that using GFP_KERNEL implies …

The Linux kernel can act as a watchdog to detect both soft and hard lockups. A ‘softlockup’ is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than 20 seconds (see …

Feb 6, 2022 · You can determine if your kernel currently has firmware loader support by looking for the CONFIG_FW_LOADER definition on your kernel’s .config file. In addition to having the …

After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel, but not necessarily in hardware. It is also possible for a route …