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4
5 <book id="LinuxKernelAPI">
6  <bookinfo>
7   <title>The Linux Kernel API</title>
8   
9   <legalnotice>
10    <para>
11      This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
12      it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
13      License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
14      version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
15      version.
16    </para>
17       
18    <para>
19      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
20      useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
21      warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
22      See the GNU General Public License for more details.
23    </para>
24       
25    <para>
26      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
27      License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
28      Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
29      MA 02111-1307 USA
30    </para>
31       
32    <para>
33      For more details see the file COPYING in the source
34      distribution of Linux.
35    </para>
36   </legalnotice>
37  </bookinfo>
38
39 <toc></toc>
40
41   <chapter id="Basics">
42      <title>Driver Basics</title>
43      <sect1><title>Driver Entry and Exit points</title>
44 !Iinclude/linux/init.h
45      </sect1>
46
47      <sect1><title>Atomic and pointer manipulation</title>
48 !Iinclude/asm-i386/atomic.h
49 !Iinclude/asm-i386/unaligned.h
50      </sect1>
51
52      <sect1><title>Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines</title>
53 !Iinclude/linux/sched.h
54 !Ekernel/sched.c
55 !Ekernel/timer.c
56      </sect1>
57      <sect1><title>High-resolution timers</title>
58 !Iinclude/linux/ktime.h
59 !Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h
60 !Ekernel/hrtimer.c
61      </sect1>
62      <sect1><title>Internal Functions</title>
63 !Ikernel/exit.c
64 !Ikernel/signal.c
65      </sect1>
66
67      <sect1><title>Kernel objects manipulation</title>
68 <!--
69 X!Iinclude/linux/kobject.h
70 -->
71 !Elib/kobject.c
72      </sect1>
73
74      <sect1><title>Kernel utility functions</title>
75 !Iinclude/linux/kernel.h
76 !Ekernel/printk.c
77 !Ekernel/panic.c
78 !Ekernel/sys.c
79 !Ekernel/rcupdate.c
80      </sect1>
81
82   </chapter>
83
84   <chapter id="adt">
85      <title>Data Types</title>
86      <sect1><title>Doubly Linked Lists</title>
87 !Iinclude/linux/list.h
88      </sect1>
89   </chapter>
90
91   <chapter id="libc">
92      <title>Basic C Library Functions</title>
93
94      <para>
95        When writing drivers, you cannot in general use routines which are
96        from the C Library.  Some of the functions have been found generally
97        useful and they are listed below.  The behaviour of these functions
98        may vary slightly from those defined by ANSI, and these deviations
99        are noted in the text.
100      </para>
101
102      <sect1><title>String Conversions</title>
103 !Ilib/vsprintf.c
104 !Elib/vsprintf.c
105      </sect1>
106      <sect1><title>String Manipulation</title>
107 <!-- All functions are exported at now
108 X!Ilib/string.c
109  -->
110 !Elib/string.c
111      </sect1>
112      <sect1><title>Bit Operations</title>
113 !Iinclude/asm-i386/bitops.h
114      </sect1>
115   </chapter>
116
117   <chapter id="mm">
118      <title>Memory Management in Linux</title>
119      <sect1><title>The Slab Cache</title>
120 !Emm/slab.c
121      </sect1>
122      <sect1><title>User Space Memory Access</title>
123 !Iinclude/asm-i386/uaccess.h
124 !Earch/i386/lib/usercopy.c
125      </sect1>
126      <sect1><title>More Memory Management Functions</title>
127 !Iinclude/linux/rmap.h
128 !Emm/readahead.c
129 !Emm/filemap.c
130 !Emm/memory.c
131 !Emm/vmalloc.c
132 !Emm/mempool.c
133 !Emm/page-writeback.c
134 !Emm/truncate.c
135      </sect1>
136   </chapter>
137
138
139   <chapter id="ipc">
140      <title>Kernel IPC facilities</title>
141
142      <sect1><title>IPC utilities</title>
143 !Iipc/util.c
144      </sect1>
145   </chapter>
146
147   <chapter id="kfifo">
148      <title>FIFO Buffer</title>
149      <sect1><title>kfifo interface</title>
150 !Iinclude/linux/kfifo.h
151 !Ekernel/kfifo.c
152      </sect1>
153   </chapter>
154
155   <chapter id="proc">
156      <title>The proc filesystem</title>
157  
158      <sect1><title>sysctl interface</title>
159 !Ekernel/sysctl.c
160      </sect1>
161
162      <sect1><title>proc filesystem interface</title>
163 !Ifs/proc/base.c
164      </sect1>
165   </chapter>
166
167   <chapter id="debugfs">
168      <title>The debugfs filesystem</title>
169  
170      <sect1><title>debugfs interface</title>
171 !Efs/debugfs/inode.c
172 !Efs/debugfs/file.c
173      </sect1>
174   </chapter>
175
176   <chapter id="vfs">
177      <title>The Linux VFS</title>
178      <sect1><title>The Filesystem types</title>
179 !Iinclude/linux/fs.h
180      </sect1>
181      <sect1><title>The Directory Cache</title>
182 !Efs/dcache.c
183 !Iinclude/linux/dcache.h
184      </sect1>
185      <sect1><title>Inode Handling</title>
186 !Efs/inode.c
187 !Efs/bad_inode.c
188      </sect1>
189      <sect1><title>Registration and Superblocks</title>
190 !Efs/super.c
191      </sect1>
192      <sect1><title>File Locks</title>
193 !Efs/locks.c
194 !Ifs/locks.c
195      </sect1>
196      <sect1><title>Other Functions</title>
197 !Efs/mpage.c
198 !Efs/namei.c
199 !Efs/buffer.c
200 !Efs/bio.c
201 !Efs/seq_file.c
202 !Efs/filesystems.c
203 !Efs/fs-writeback.c
204 !Efs/block_dev.c
205      </sect1>
206   </chapter>
207
208   <chapter id="netcore">
209      <title>Linux Networking</title>
210      <sect1><title>Networking Base Types</title>
211 !Iinclude/linux/net.h
212      </sect1>
213      <sect1><title>Socket Buffer Functions</title>
214 !Iinclude/linux/skbuff.h
215 !Iinclude/net/sock.h
216 !Enet/socket.c
217 !Enet/core/skbuff.c
218 !Enet/core/sock.c
219 !Enet/core/datagram.c
220 !Enet/core/stream.c
221      </sect1>
222      <sect1><title>Socket Filter</title>
223 !Enet/core/filter.c
224      </sect1>
225      <sect1><title>Generic Network Statistics</title>
226 !Iinclude/linux/gen_stats.h
227 !Enet/core/gen_stats.c
228 !Enet/core/gen_estimator.c
229      </sect1>
230      <sect1><title>SUN RPC subsystem</title>
231 <!-- The !D functionality is not perfect, garbage has to be protected by comments
232 !Dnet/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c
233 -->
234 !Enet/sunrpc/xdr.c
235 !Enet/sunrpc/svcsock.c
236 !Enet/sunrpc/sched.c
237      </sect1>
238   </chapter>
239
240   <chapter id="netdev">
241      <title>Network device support</title>
242      <sect1><title>Driver Support</title>
243 !Enet/core/dev.c
244 !Enet/ethernet/eth.c
245 !Iinclude/linux/etherdevice.h
246 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
247 X!Enet/core/wireless.c
248 -->
249      </sect1>
250      <sect1><title>Synchronous PPP</title>
251 !Edrivers/net/wan/syncppp.c
252      </sect1>
253   </chapter>
254
255   <chapter id="modload">
256      <title>Module Support</title>
257      <sect1><title>Module Loading</title>
258 !Ekernel/kmod.c
259      </sect1>
260      <sect1><title>Inter Module support</title>
261         <para>
262            Refer to the file kernel/module.c for more information.
263         </para>
264 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
265 X!Ekernel/module.c
266 -->
267      </sect1>
268   </chapter>
269
270   <chapter id="hardware">
271      <title>Hardware Interfaces</title>
272      <sect1><title>Interrupt Handling</title>
273 !Ekernel/irq/manage.c
274      </sect1>
275
276      <sect1><title>Resources Management</title>
277 !Ekernel/resource.c
278      </sect1>
279
280      <sect1><title>MTRR Handling</title>
281 !Earch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
282      </sect1>
283      <sect1><title>PCI Support Library</title>
284 !Edrivers/pci/pci.c
285 !Edrivers/pci/pci-driver.c
286 !Edrivers/pci/remove.c
287 !Edrivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
288 <!-- kerneldoc does not understand to __devinit
289 X!Edrivers/pci/search.c
290  -->
291 !Edrivers/pci/msi.c
292 !Edrivers/pci/bus.c
293 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
294 X!Edrivers/pci/hotplug.c
295 -->
296 !Edrivers/pci/probe.c
297 !Edrivers/pci/rom.c
298      </sect1>
299      <sect1><title>PCI Hotplug Support Library</title>
300 !Edrivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c
301      </sect1>
302      <sect1><title>MCA Architecture</title>
303         <sect2><title>MCA Device Functions</title>
304            <para>
305               Refer to the file arch/i386/kernel/mca.c for more information.
306            </para>
307 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
308 X!Earch/i386/kernel/mca.c
309 -->
310         </sect2>
311         <sect2><title>MCA Bus DMA</title>
312 !Iinclude/asm-i386/mca_dma.h
313         </sect2>
314      </sect1>
315   </chapter>
316
317   <chapter id="devfs">
318      <title>The Device File System</title>
319 !Efs/devfs/base.c
320   </chapter>
321
322   <chapter id="sysfs">
323      <title>The Filesystem for Exporting Kernel Objects</title>
324 !Efs/sysfs/file.c
325 !Efs/sysfs/symlink.c
326 !Efs/sysfs/bin.c
327   </chapter>
328
329   <chapter id="security">
330      <title>Security Framework</title>
331 !Esecurity/security.c
332   </chapter>
333
334   <chapter id="pmfuncs">
335      <title>Power Management</title>
336 !Ekernel/power/pm.c
337   </chapter>
338
339   <chapter id="devdrivers">
340      <title>Device drivers infrastructure</title>
341      <sect1><title>Device Drivers Base</title>
342 <!--
343 X!Iinclude/linux/device.h
344 -->
345 !Edrivers/base/driver.c
346 !Edrivers/base/core.c
347 !Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c
348 !Edrivers/base/transport_class.c
349 !Edrivers/base/dmapool.c
350 <!-- Cannot be included, because
351      attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter
352  and attribute_container_classdev_to_container
353      exceed allowed 44 characters maximum
354 X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c
355 -->
356 !Edrivers/base/sys.c
357 <!--
358 X!Edrivers/base/interface.c
359 -->
360 !Edrivers/base/platform.c
361 !Edrivers/base/bus.c
362      </sect1>
363      <sect1><title>Device Drivers Power Management</title>
364 !Edrivers/base/power/main.c
365 !Edrivers/base/power/resume.c
366 !Edrivers/base/power/suspend.c
367      </sect1>
368      <sect1><title>Device Drivers ACPI Support</title>
369 <!-- Internal functions only
370 X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
371 X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/wakeup.c
372 X!Edrivers/acpi/motherboard.c
373 X!Edrivers/acpi/bus.c
374 -->
375 !Edrivers/acpi/scan.c
376 !Idrivers/acpi/scan.c
377 <!-- No correct structured comments
378 X!Edrivers/acpi/pci_bind.c
379 -->
380      </sect1>
381      <sect1><title>Device drivers PnP support</title>
382 !Edrivers/pnp/core.c
383 <!-- No correct structured comments
384 X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c
385  -->
386 !Edrivers/pnp/card.c
387 !Edrivers/pnp/driver.c
388 !Edrivers/pnp/manager.c
389 !Edrivers/pnp/support.c
390      </sect1>
391   </chapter>
392
393
394   <chapter id="blkdev">
395      <title>Block Devices</title>
396 !Eblock/ll_rw_blk.c
397   </chapter>
398
399   <chapter id="miscdev">
400      <title>Miscellaneous Devices</title>
401 !Edrivers/char/misc.c
402   </chapter>
403
404   <chapter id="viddev">
405      <title>Video4Linux</title>
406 !Edrivers/media/video/videodev.c
407   </chapter>
408
409   <chapter id="snddev">
410      <title>Sound Devices</title>
411 !Iinclude/sound/core.h
412 !Esound/sound_core.c
413 !Iinclude/sound/pcm.h
414 !Esound/core/pcm.c
415 !Esound/core/device.c
416 !Esound/core/info.c
417 !Esound/core/rawmidi.c
418 !Esound/core/sound.c
419 !Esound/core/memory.c
420 !Esound/core/pcm_memory.c
421 !Esound/core/init.c
422 !Esound/core/isadma.c
423 !Esound/core/control.c
424 !Esound/core/pcm_lib.c
425 !Esound/core/hwdep.c
426 !Esound/core/pcm_native.c
427 !Esound/core/memalloc.c
428 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
429 X!Isound/sound_firmware.c
430 -->
431   </chapter>
432
433   <chapter id="uart16x50">
434      <title>16x50 UART Driver</title>
435 !Iinclude/linux/serial_core.h
436 !Edrivers/serial/serial_core.c
437 !Edrivers/serial/8250.c
438   </chapter>
439
440   <chapter id="z85230">
441      <title>Z85230 Support Library</title>
442 !Edrivers/net/wan/z85230.c
443   </chapter>
444
445   <chapter id="fbdev">
446      <title>Frame Buffer Library</title>
447
448      <para>
449        The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures.  
450        These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h.  They are 
451        fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs. 
452        The last three can be made available to and from userland. 
453      </para>
454
455      <para>
456        fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card. 
457        Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a 
458        collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work.
459        fb_info is only visible to the kernel.
460      </para>
461
462      <para>
463        fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card 
464        that are user defined.  With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as
465        depth and the resolution may be defined.
466      </para>
467
468      <para>
469        The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the 
470        properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't 
471        be changed otherwise.  A good example of this is the start of the 
472        frame buffer memory.  This "locks" the address of the frame buffer
473        memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved.
474      </para>
475
476      <para>
477        The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was 
478        little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things 
479        such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With 
480        the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used 
481        correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked.  fb_monospecs
482        will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x.
483      </para>
484
485      <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Memory</title>
486 !Edrivers/video/fbmem.c
487      </sect1>
488 <!--
489      <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Console</title>
490 X!Edrivers/video/console/fbcon.c
491      </sect1>
492 -->
493      <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Colormap</title>
494 !Edrivers/video/fbcmap.c
495      </sect1>
496 <!-- FIXME:
497   drivers/video/fbgen.c has no docs, which stuffs up the sgml.  Comment
498   out until somebody adds docs.  KAO
499      <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Generic Functions</title>
500 X!Idrivers/video/fbgen.c
501      </sect1>
502 KAO -->
503      <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Video Mode Database</title>
504 !Idrivers/video/modedb.c
505 !Edrivers/video/modedb.c
506      </sect1>
507      <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database</title>
508 !Edrivers/video/macmodes.c
509      </sect1>
510      <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title>
511         <para>
512            Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information.
513         </para>
514 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
515 X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c
516 -->
517      </sect1>
518   </chapter>
519 </book>