A series of posts about the linux kernel and its insides.

The goal is simple - to share my modest knowledge about the insides of the linux kernel and help people who are interested in linux kernel insides, and other low-level subject matter.

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Linux Inside
Introduction
1. Booting
2. Initialization
3. Interrupts
4. System calls
5. Timers and time management
6. Memory management
- 6.1. Memblock
- 6.2. Fixmaps and ioremap
7. SMP
8. Concepts
- 8.1. Per-CPU variables
- 8.2. Cpumasks
9. Data Structures in the Linux Kernel
- 9.1. Doubly linked list
- 9.2. Radix tree
10. Theory
- 10.1. Paging
- 10.2. Elf64
- 10.3. CPUID
- 10.4. MSR
11. Initial ram disk
- 11.1. initrd
12. Misc
- 12.1. How the kernel is compiled
- 12.2. Linkers
- 12.3. Linux kernel development
- 12.4. Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch
- 12.5. Data types in the kernel
13. Useful links
14. Contributors
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