Scheduler

• A short and incomplete introduction to scheduling in UNIX and Linux, and how tasks interact with the kernel.

Memory management

• A Memory Management talk by Rik van Riel

• KernelMemoryAllocation: A brief overview of the different memory management mechanisms used in the kernel.

• Copy from/to user-space implementation. A description of the x86 copy_from/to_user() core code.

Device driver infrastructure

• Understanding The Linux Kernel Initcall Mechanism: How module_init() and friends work.

• Device Drivers

Networking

• Linux IP Networking A description of Linux 2.2's IP stack, with diagrams.

• Netfilter talk

• Networking everything network related

USB

• USB documentation links

Filesystems

• A seq_file HOWTO Describes the seq_file API, used for outputting information via /proc.

• Why Reiser4 is not in the Linux Kernel.

Power Management

• PowerManagement

Hardware architecture

• KernelPorts porting the kernel to other architectures

Read-Copy Update (RCU)

• RCU Links to RCU documentation

SystemTap

• SystemTap