linux-insides-zh/SUMMARY.md

Summary

• Booting
  • From bootloader to kernel
  • First steps in the kernel setup code
  • Video mode initialization and transition to protected mode
  • Transition to 64-bit mode
  • Kernel decompression
• Initialization
  • First steps in the kernel
  • Early interrupts handler
  • Last preparations before the kernel entry point
  • Kernel entry point
  • Continue architecture-specific boot-time initializations
  • Architecture-specific initializations, again...
  • End of the architecture-specific initializations, almost...
  • Scheduler initialization
  • RCU initialization
  • End of initialization
• Interrupts
  • Introduction
  • Start to dive into interrupts
  • Interrupt handlers
  • Initialization of non-early interrupt gates
  • Implementation of some exception handlers
  • Handling Non-Maskable interrupts
  • Dive into external hardware interrupts
• Memory management
  • Memblock
  • Fixmaps and ioremap
• vsyscalls and vdso
• SMP
• Concepts
  • Per-CPU variables
  • Cpumasks
• Data Structures in the Linux Kernel
  • Doubly linked list
  • Radix tree
• Theory
  • Paging
  • Elf64
  • CPUID
  • MSR
• Initial ram disk
  • initrd
• Misc
  • Kernel building and instalation
  • Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch
  • Data types in the kernel
• Useful links
• Contributors