All Linux Kernel Solutions on Gang of Coders

Total of 71 Linux Kernel Solutions

Why is the probe method needed in Linux device drivers in addition to init?

Linux Operating System Linux Kernel

Qt Creator, ptrace: Operation not permitted. What is the permanent solution?

C++Qt Linux Kernel Qt5 Linux Mint

Linux kernel live debugging, how it's done and what tools are used?

Debugging Linux Kernel Kernel

Why do some kernel programmers use goto instead of simple while loops?

C Linux Loops Linux Kernel Goto

How does Linux Kernel know where to look for driver firmware?

Linux Kernel Linux Device-Driver Firmware

How to recompile just a single kernel module?

Linux Makefile Linux Kernel Gnu Make Kernel Module

Difference between POSIX AIO and libaio on Linux?

Linux Asynchronous Io Linux Kernel Aio

redis bgsave failed because fork Cannot allocate memory

Linux Kernel Redis Fork

How can I see which CPU core a thread is running in?

Linux Linux Kernel Scheduled Tasks Scheduling Scheduler

What's meaning of "EXPORT_SYMBOL" in Linux kernel code?

How to write a simple Linux device driver?

C Linux Linux Kernel Linux Device-Driver Embedded Linux

How do I delete virtual interface in Linux?

Linux Networking Linux Kernel Virtual Machine Ifconfig

How does the linux kernel manage less than 1GB physical memory?

Linux Kernel Kernel Arm Linux Device-Driver Embedded Linux

Why kernel code/thread executing in interrupt context cannot sleep?

How does Linux determine the next PID?

Linux Apache Linux Kernel Kernel

How to read, understand, analyze, and debug a Linux kernel panic?

C Linux Debugging Linux Kernel Panic

Is bool a native C type?

C Gcc Linux Kernel Boolean

Why do we need a swapper task in linux?

Linux Linux Kernel Scheduled Tasks

How to use netlink socket to communicate with a kernel module?

C Linux Kernel Linux Device-Driver Netlink

What is the theoretical maximum number of open TCP connections that a modern Linux box can have

Tcp Linux Kernel Port File Descriptor

How is the Linux kernel tested ?

Linux Linux Kernel

Increasing the maximum number of TCP/IP connections in Linux

Linux Networking Linux Kernel

Why is Linux called a monolithic kernel?

Architecture Operating System Linux Kernel

Finding which process was killed by Linux OOM killer

Linux Linux Kernel

Measure time in Linux - time vs clock vs getrusage vs clock_gettime vs gettimeofday vs timespec_get?

C Linux Time Linux Kernel

What is the difference between the kernel space and the user space?

Linux Kernel Operating System Kernel Terminology

What is ?= in Makefile

Linux Linux Kernel Makefile

IOCTL Linux device driver

Linux Linux Kernel Driver Linux Device-Driver Ioctl

Writing programs to cope with I/O errors causing lost writes on Linux

C Linux Linux Kernel Posix

What's the use of do while(0) when we define a macro?

C Macros Linux Kernel

kernel stack and user space stack

Linux Linux Kernel Linux Device-Driver

What happens to an open file handle on Linux if the pointed file gets moved or deleted

Linux File File Io Linux Kernel Systems Programming

What is the difference between vmalloc and kmalloc?

C Linux Kernel Kmalloc Vmalloc

Read/write files within a Linux kernel module

C File Io Linux Kernel Kernel Module

If threads share the same PID, how can they be identified?

Multithreading Linux Kernel Pid

How to "hibernate" a process in Linux by storing its memory to disk and restoring it later?

Linux Linux Kernel

What are vdso and vsyscall?

C Linux Linux Kernel Kernel Vdso

Context switches much slower in new linux kernels

Linux Multithreading Linux Kernel Kernel Ubuntu 12.04

Using gdb to single-step assembly code outside specified executable causes error "cannot find bounds of current function"

Linux Assembly Gdb X86 Linux Kernel

Image vs zImage vs uImage

Linux Kernel Embedded Linux U Boot

Understanding container_of macro in the Linux kernel

C Linux Kernel C Preprocessor

How to avoid transparent_hugepage/defrag warning from mongodb?

Linux Mongodb Linux Kernel

Use of floating point in the Linux kernel

Linux Floating Point Linux Kernel

What does "make oldconfig" do exactly in the Linux kernel makefile?

Linux Makefile Linux Kernel

What is ":-!!" in C code?

C Linux Macros Linux Kernel

What are IN & OUT instructions in x86 used for?

Assembly X86 Linux Kernel

Selecting a Linux I/O Scheduler

Linux Linux Kernel Scheduling

Privileged containers and capabilities

Docker Linux Kernel Kubernetes Linux Capabilities

How do the likely/unlikely macros in the Linux kernel work and what is their benefit?

Linux Gcc Linux Kernel Likely Unlikely

Which real-time priority is the highest priority in Linux

Linux Linux Kernel Real Time

what does anon-rss and total-vm mean

Linux Memory Linux Kernel Kill Process

Magic numbers of the Linux reboot() system call

Linux Linux Kernel System Calls

How can I identify the request queue for a linux block device

Linux Linux Kernel Block Device

Context switch internals

Linux Kernel Kernel Scheduler Context Switch

Accurate calculation of CPU usage given in percentage in Linux?

Linux Linux Kernel Cpu Calculator Cpu Usage

How can Docker run distros with different kernels?

Linux Kernel Docker Linux Distro

What are the implications of the linux __user macro?

C Macros Linux Kernel Kernel

Linux Kernel: System call hooking example

C Linux Kernel Hook

Whole one core dedicated to single process

C Linux Linux Kernel Cpu Scheduling

How much memory could vm use

What does it mean by cold cache and warm cache concept?

Caching Linux Kernel Filesystems Ext2

How closely are Mac OS X and BSD related?

Macos Unix Operating System Linux Kernel Kernel

How does Docker run a Linux kernel under macOS host?

Linux Macos Docker Linux Kernel

How to fix: fatal error: openssl/opensslv.h: No such file or directory in RedHat 7

Module Linux Kernel Openssl Redhat

What is the difference between a Linux platform driver and normal device driver?

C Linux Linux Kernel Linux Device-Driver

How to get function's name from function's pointer in Linux kernel?

C Linux Kernel Function Pointers

Linux kernel "historical" git repository with full history

Linux Git Linux Kernel Kernel

What is the function of "(void) (&_min1 == &_min2)" in the min macro in kernel.h?

Running docker on Android

Android Linux Linux Kernel Docker

Difference between arm-eabi arm-gnueabi and gnueabi-hf compilers

Linux Gcc Linux Kernel Arm Linux Device-Driver

What is the need of empty braces '{ }' at the end of array of structs?

C Arrays Struct Linux Kernel