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<book id="LinuxKernelAPI">
<bookinfo>
<title>The Linux Kernel API</title>
<legalnotice>
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<para>
For more details see the file COPYING in the source
distribution of Linux.
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</legalnotice>
</bookinfo>
<toc></toc>
<chapter id="Basics">
<title>Driver Basics</title>
<sect1><title>Driver Entry and Exit points</title>
!Iinclude/linux/init.h
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Atomic and pointer manipulation</title>
!Iinclude/asm-i386/atomic.h
!Iinclude/asm-i386/unaligned.h
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines</title>
!Iinclude/linux/sched.h
!Ekernel/sched.c
!Ekernel/timer.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>High-resolution timers</title>
!Iinclude/linux/ktime.h
!Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h
!Ekernel/hrtimer.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Workqueues and Kevents</title>
!Ekernel/workqueue.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Internal Functions</title>
!Ikernel/exit.c
!Ikernel/signal.c
!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h
!Ekernel/kthread.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Kernel objects manipulation</title>
<!--
X!Iinclude/linux/kobject.h
-->
!Elib/kobject.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Kernel utility functions</title>
!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h
!Ekernel/printk.c
!Ekernel/panic.c
!Ekernel/sys.c
!Ekernel/rcupdate.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="adt">
<title>Data Types</title>
<sect1><title>Doubly Linked Lists</title>
!Iinclude/linux/list.h
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="libc">
<title>Basic C Library Functions</title>
<para>
When writing drivers, you cannot in general use routines which are
from the C Library. Some of the functions have been found generally
useful and they are listed below. The behaviour of these functions
may vary slightly from those defined by ANSI, and these deviations
are noted in the text.
</para>
<sect1><title>String Conversions</title>
!Ilib/vsprintf.c
!Elib/vsprintf.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>String Manipulation</title>
<!-- All functions are exported at now
X!Ilib/string.c
-->
!Elib/string.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Bit Operations</title>
!Iinclude/asm-i386/bitops.h
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="kernel-lib">
<title>Basic Kernel Library Functions</title>
<para>
The Linux kernel provides more basic utility functions.
</para>
<sect1><title>Bitmap Operations</title>
!Elib/bitmap.c
!Ilib/bitmap.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Command-line Parsing</title>
!Elib/cmdline.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>CRC Functions</title>
!Elib/crc16.c
!Elib/crc32.c
!Elib/crc-ccitt.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="mm">
<title>Memory Management in Linux</title>
<sect1><title>The Slab Cache</title>
!Iinclude/linux/slab.h
!Emm/slab.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>User Space Memory Access</title>
!Iinclude/asm-i386/uaccess.h
!Earch/i386/lib/usercopy.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>More Memory Management Functions</title>
!Iinclude/linux/rmap.h
!Emm/readahead.c
!Emm/filemap.c
!Emm/memory.c
!Emm/vmalloc.c
!Emm/mempool.c
!Emm/page-writeback.c
!Emm/truncate.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="ipc">
<title>Kernel IPC facilities</title>
<sect1><title>IPC utilities</title>
!Iipc/util.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="kfifo">
<title>FIFO Buffer</title>
<sect1><title>kfifo interface</title>
!Iinclude/linux/kfifo.h
!Ekernel/kfifo.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="vfs">
<title>The Linux VFS</title>
<sect1><title>The Filesystem types</title>
!Iinclude/linux/fs.h
</sect1>
<sect1><title>The Directory Cache</title>
!Efs/dcache.c
!Iinclude/linux/dcache.h
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Inode Handling</title>
!Efs/inode.c
!Efs/bad_inode.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Registration and Superblocks</title>
!Efs/super.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>File Locks</title>
!Efs/locks.c
!Ifs/locks.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Other Functions</title>
!Efs/mpage.c
!Efs/namei.c
!Efs/buffer.c
!Efs/bio.c
!Efs/seq_file.c
!Efs/filesystems.c
!Efs/fs-writeback.c
!Efs/block_dev.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="proc">
<title>The proc filesystem</title>
<sect1><title>sysctl interface</title>
!Ekernel/sysctl.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>proc filesystem interface</title>
!Ifs/proc/base.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="sysfs">
<title>The Filesystem for Exporting Kernel Objects</title>
!Efs/sysfs/file.c
!Efs/sysfs/symlink.c
!Efs/sysfs/bin.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="debugfs">
<title>The debugfs filesystem</title>
<sect1><title>debugfs interface</title>
!Efs/debugfs/inode.c
!Efs/debugfs/file.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="relayfs">
<title>relay interface support</title>
<para>
Relay interface support
is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
user space.
</para>
<sect1><title>relay interface</title>
!Ekernel/relay.c
!Ikernel/relay.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="netcore">
<title>Linux Networking</title>
<sect1><title>Networking Base Types</title>
!Iinclude/linux/net.h
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Socket Buffer Functions</title>
!Iinclude/linux/skbuff.h
!Iinclude/net/sock.h
!Enet/socket.c
!Enet/core/skbuff.c
!Enet/core/sock.c
!Enet/core/datagram.c
!Enet/core/stream.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Socket Filter</title>
!Enet/core/filter.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Generic Network Statistics</title>
!Iinclude/linux/gen_stats.h
!Enet/core/gen_stats.c
!Enet/core/gen_estimator.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>SUN RPC subsystem</title>
<!-- The !D functionality is not perfect, garbage has to be protected by comments
!Dnet/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c
-->
!Enet/sunrpc/xdr.c
!Enet/sunrpc/svcsock.c
!Enet/sunrpc/sched.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="netdev">
<title>Network device support</title>
<sect1><title>Driver Support</title>
!Enet/core/dev.c
!Enet/ethernet/eth.c
!Iinclude/linux/etherdevice.h
<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
X!Enet/core/wireless.c
-->
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Synchronous PPP</title>
!Edrivers/net/wan/syncppp.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="modload">
<title>Module Support</title>
<sect1><title>Module Loading</title>
!Ekernel/kmod.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Inter Module support</title>
<para>
Refer to the file kernel/module.c for more information.
</para>
<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
X!Ekernel/module.c
-->
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="hardware">
<title>Hardware Interfaces</title>
<sect1><title>Interrupt Handling</title>
!Ekernel/irq/manage.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Resources Management</title>
!Ikernel/resource.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>MTRR Handling</title>
!Earch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>PCI Support Library</title>
!Edrivers/pci/pci.c
!Edrivers/pci/pci-driver.c
!Edrivers/pci/remove.c
!Edrivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
!Edrivers/pci/search.c
!Edrivers/pci/msi.c
!Edrivers/pci/bus.c
<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
X!Edrivers/pci/hotplug.c
-->
!Edrivers/pci/probe.c
!Edrivers/pci/rom.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>PCI Hotplug Support Library</title>
!Edrivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>MCA Architecture</title>
<sect2><title>MCA Device Functions</title>
<para>
Refer to the file arch/i386/kernel/mca.c for more information.
</para>
<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
X!Earch/i386/kernel/mca.c
-->
</sect2>
<sect2><title>MCA Bus DMA</title>
!Iinclude/asm-i386/mca_dma.h
</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="firmware">
<title>Firmware Interfaces</title>
<sect1><title>DMI Interfaces</title>
!Edrivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="security">
<title>Security Framework</title>
!Esecurity/security.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="audit">
<title>Audit Interfaces</title>
!Ekernel/audit.c
!Ikernel/auditsc.c
!Ikernel/auditfilter.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="accounting">
<title>Accounting Framework</title>
!Ikernel/acct.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="pmfuncs">
<title>Power Management</title>
!Ekernel/power/pm.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="devdrivers">
<title>Device drivers infrastructure</title>
<sect1><title>Device Drivers Base</title>
<!--
X!Iinclude/linux/device.h
-->
!Edrivers/base/driver.c
!Edrivers/base/core.c
!Edrivers/base/class.c
!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c
!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c
!Edrivers/base/dmapool.c
<!-- Cannot be included, because
attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter
and attribute_container_classdev_to_container
exceed allowed 44 characters maximum
X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c
-->
!Edrivers/base/sys.c
<!--
X!Edrivers/base/interface.c
-->
!Edrivers/base/platform.c
!Edrivers/base/bus.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Device Drivers Power Management</title>
!Edrivers/base/power/main.c
!Edrivers/base/power/resume.c
!Edrivers/base/power/suspend.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Device Drivers ACPI Support</title>
<!-- Internal functions only
X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/wakeup.c
X!Edrivers/acpi/motherboard.c
X!Edrivers/acpi/bus.c
-->
!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c
!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c
<!-- No correct structured comments
X!Edrivers/acpi/pci_bind.c
-->
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Device drivers PnP support</title>
!Edrivers/pnp/core.c
<!-- No correct structured comments
X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c
-->
!Edrivers/pnp/card.c
!Edrivers/pnp/driver.c
!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c
!Edrivers/pnp/support.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="blkdev">
<title>Block Devices</title>
!Eblock/ll_rw_blk.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="miscdev">
<title>Miscellaneous Devices</title>
!Edrivers/char/misc.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="parportdev">
<title>Parallel Port Devices</title>
!Iinclude/linux/parport.h
!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c
!Edrivers/parport/share.c
!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="viddev">
<title>Video4Linux</title>
!Edrivers/media/video/videodev.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="snddev">
<title>Sound Devices</title>
!Iinclude/sound/core.h
!Esound/sound_core.c
!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h
!Esound/core/pcm.c
!Esound/core/device.c
!Esound/core/info.c
!Esound/core/rawmidi.c
!Esound/core/sound.c
!Esound/core/memory.c
!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c
!Esound/core/init.c
!Esound/core/isadma.c
!Esound/core/control.c
!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c
!Esound/core/hwdep.c
!Esound/core/pcm_native.c
!Esound/core/memalloc.c
<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
X!Isound/sound_firmware.c
-->
</chapter>
<chapter id="uart16x50">
<title>16x50 UART Driver</title>
!Iinclude/linux/serial_core.h
!Edrivers/serial/serial_core.c
!Edrivers/serial/8250.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="z85230">
<title>Z85230 Support Library</title>
!Edrivers/net/wan/z85230.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="fbdev">
<title>Frame Buffer Library</title>
<para>
The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures.
These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are
fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs.
The last three can be made available to and from userland.
</para>
<para>
fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card.
Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a
collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work.
fb_info is only visible to the kernel.
</para>
<para>
fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card
that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as
depth and the resolution may be defined.
</para>
<para>
The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the
properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't
be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the
frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer
memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved.
</para>
<para>
The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was
little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things
such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With
the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used
correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs
will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x.
</para>
<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Memory</title>
!Edrivers/video/fbmem.c
</sect1>
<!--
<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Console</title>
X!Edrivers/video/console/fbcon.c
</sect1>
-->
<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Colormap</title>
!Edrivers/video/fbcmap.c
</sect1>
<!-- FIXME:
drivers/video/fbgen.c has no docs, which stuffs up the sgml. Comment
out until somebody adds docs. KAO
<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Generic Functions</title>
X!Idrivers/video/fbgen.c
</sect1>
KAO -->
<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Video Mode Database</title>
!Idrivers/video/modedb.c
!Edrivers/video/modedb.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database</title>
!Edrivers/video/macmodes.c
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title>
<para>
Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information.
</para>
<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c
-->
</sect1>
</chapter>
</book>
