I am looking at some pointers for understanding how the Linux kernel implements the setting up of various hardware clocks. This basically relates to working with setting up the various clocks that har
I\'m trying to understand how the schedule process in linux kernel actually works. My question is not about the scheduling algorithm. Its about how the functions schedule() and switch_to() work.
i need to exchange a struct timeval between kernl-space and user-space (through a netlink message) in order to calculate the elapsed time between the creation of the message and the elaboration in use
Does anyone know when the close function pointer of the struct vm_operations_struct (linux/mm.h) is called? Is it when munmap is called for the specified region?
i\'m connecting several usb modems to my Ubuntu: uname -a Linux devlp 2.6.32-28-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 10 21:21:01 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
#include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/types.h>
i\'d need to link to my linux kernel开发者_开发知识库 module a precompiled object file. if i have a row in the makefile like this:
The name is suggesting it. If there are online cpus, are there offline cpus? can a offline cpu become online and vice versa?
I working on some code in the linux kernel (2.4) and for some reason kmalloc returns the same address (I believe it only happens after the middle of the test). I checked that no calls to kfree were ma
How can be accessed kernel parameters (pass开发者_开发知识库ed via Grub) in initramfs\'s init script?