why struct net_device has a field uc_promisc? How this field开发者_Go百科 is used? Thank you all!When a device that doesn\'t support unicast filtering has to listen to several unicast addresses, it i
I\'m working on Linux kernel version 2.6.39.1, and am developing a block device driver. In this regard, I want to combine multiple struct bios into a single struct request, which is then added to the
I want to get a list of all PFNs which belong to the pagecache. One way is to go over each open file/inode and get the address_space pages.
I\'m trying to use MPU3000/3050 by Invensense with embedded linux (ARM-based LPC3141 board, Embedded Artists).
I am a bit confused by the comment in one of the header files for the Linux kernel, arch/x86/include/asm/nops.h. It states that
As part of my project I need to read the kernel to get the memory address of system call table and system call address. Or in effect i开发者_运维知识库 need to extract the contents of the system call
For my university, final-year dissertation, I am going to implement a compiler for a skeletal form of the C programming language, then go about extending it until it resembles something a little more
Do I need to protect my interrupt handler being called many times for the same interrupt? Given the following code, I am not sure on the system calls I should make. I am getting rare, random dead-loc
When a process in the kernel space is holding a spin_lock, the process cannot be preempted due to any of the following conditions :
When a process executing in the user space issues a system call or triggers an exception, it enters into the kernel space and kernel starts executing on behalf of the process. Kernel is said to be exe