Navid Malekghaini's Personal Blog

My personal weblog for sharing and storing some of my activities related to computer science over the internet

Navid Malekghaini's Personal Blog

My personal weblog for sharing and storing some of my activities related to computer science over the internet

Navid Malekghaini's Personal Blog

Navid Malekghaini

Software Engineer @ Intelligent Cloud Infrastructure Laboratory
Prev. ML Researcher @ University of Waterloo x Orange Telecom

University of Waterloo
Department of computer science
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
cs.uwaterloo.ca

contact me
navidmalekedu (AT) gmail (DOT) com [ Primary Email ]
nmalekgh (AT) uwaterloo (DOT) ca

Operating System - Linux

Tuesday, 11 July 2017، 06:12 AM




in these series of tutorials i want to play with Linux kernel and Loadable Kernel Modules (LKM) along with getting basic information about kernel architecture and system calls (part 1) , proc file system and processes information's (part 2), these tutorials are adopted from my operating system's class project.

there are two major parts as i mentioned before:

 
  1. Linux kernel (focusing on system calls)
  • Building kernel from source with adding a simple system call
  • Finding specified devices information and necessary functions to implement them
  • How to implement the system call and user space program to get info on specified drivers from kernel

     2. Loadable Kernel Modules (focusing on Proc File system)

  • Implementation of simple “hello world” module and run
  • Finding specified information and necessary functions to implement desired module
  • Implementation of desired kernel module and user program

requirements:

  • Ubuntu version: 16.04.2 (recommended not required)

  • Linux kernel : 4.x.x

  • Internet connection

  • about 30 or 40 gigabytes of space (first part)

  • lots of time for compile ! (first part)



i will start from the simple system call in the next post.

navidx